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.
