Tales from a spanish Village

By richard barrett

Biographies & Memoirs

Travel

History

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Tales from a Spanish Village is about my experience as a cultural anthropologist in 1967-68 when I lived in a small peasant village in spain, collecting material for a doctoral dissertation. It is a personal account, describing how I adjusted to the community and about the wonderful characters I met along the way. Many of the chapters deal with these personalities: the great Isidro Sanz who could easily be

mistaken forDon Quixote's sidekick, Sancho Panza; my deranged landlady who heeded voices from her stomach; an absolutely brilliant

professor and the fabled and imperious Marieta, grand dame of the region. But, above all, it is a frank, sometimes humorous, but tender

portrait of village Spain at the twilight of the Franco dictatorship.

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