Arquitectura tradicional gandeira na serra do Suído: a resposta dunha tradición

Abstract

The paper shows the results of a filedwork project carried out in the mountain range of Serra do Suído. The project was part of a plan of Counterbalance Measures designed to compensate the cultural impact caused by the construction of a wind farm. The results shown correspond to a superficial survey developed to record the cultural heritage elements in the Su ido range, consisting basically of a wide variety of constructions related to traditional stockbreeding. The range was, until recent time, the space for the development of a series of practices of cattle raising quite particular and specifíc of sorne mountain areas of Galicia. Simultaneously the paper recalls the personality of D. Xaquín Lorenzo, the most significant Galician etnoghapher, since his reserach on the cattle rising on the range of Serra de Leboreiro were extremely helpful in the foundations of this piece of research.