摘要：With the acceptance of Spain to the Common European Market in the 1980s a rapid phase of changes in agricultural legislation led to a dramatic transformation of rural villages in the Principality of Asturias. In this essay we discuss first, the origins and characteristics of the millenarian agricultural-pastoral system and the historical events that led to its disappearance as remembered by the last individuals participating in it. This essay includes, secondly, a selection of segments of life histories representing how migration and the economic forces generating it rendered the traditional system of land management unviable and radically transformed. Lastly, the essay considers the role played by memory in the reconstruction of the events leading to this historical transformation.
