Tales from a Spanish Village

These Tales from a Spanish Village are accounts of some remarkable personalitiesand certain incidents that occurred in a small Spanish village in 1967-68. RichardBarrett was working in the community as a cultural anthropologist gatheringmaterials for a doctoral dissertation. This is the story of his adjustment to thecommunity of the generous people he met there and some of the surprisingevents that took place. It was the period of the Franco dictatorship of donkeysmules and peasant carts in the countryside – an era that has now been entirelyswept away. Reflecting on the experience he writes “It was wonderful and themore distant I get from it the more remarkable it now seems.â€