A casa e a aldea: espacios primarios de vida en San Xoán de Poio

Abstract

We emphasize home and hamlet to be life's basic spaces in traditional society and the way, which everybody knows reality. We make reference to the identities of the community's members and their socialization habits through their activities and behaviours. Many of these activities and behaviours take place in the home and hamlet and provide us with an outline of the community's mentality. We also point out the changes and differences between traditional and present society, which are caused by modernity, including changes in the physical structure of the home and hamlet.