CoLingPB/Agreste Rural/Esperança/brPB06_g3bF01

Abstract

Informant brPB06_g3bF01, Rural Agreste, Esperança, Corpus “O Linguajar Paraibano”. WEB page: www.cchla.ufpb.br/colingpb. Oral interview (original duration: 31'47"), with sound recording in WAV format (22,500 Hz), orthographically transcribed in PDF format, and in TRS format (to open this file, it is necessary to install the Transcriber program, available at http: //trans.sourceforge.net/en/presentation.php). Topics covered: access to medicines; family farming; retirement; lease; robberies in rural areas; medical assistance in the public network; coffins donated by the municipal government; guard dog; marriage; raising children; raising cattle and sheep; deceased buried without coffin; sick transported in hammocks; poisoning of guard dogs; lack of capital to increase the planting of the small farmer; lack of financial resources for raising children; mourning and black clothing; homemade medicines; fear of violence in rural areas; infant mortality; dead veiled in homes; number of children; prejudice against single women; chicken theft; aid for the sick; estimated time to travel from rural to urban areas; use of medicinal teas; use of red cloth to announce death by misfortune; wake and its ritual; rural area and public transport.