Abstract

This essay argues for the continued relevance of the now “classic” focus in Galician anthropological research on topics such as the household (casas) and inter-household helping systems (as axudas) in the twentieth-first century. These perspectives are currently very relevant for research on the character and impacts of precarity in employment and in the social reproduction of rural inhabitants. Given the ongoing depopulation of many Galician villages, more than ever it is important to understand both the monetary sources and forms of reproductive labour that sustain households, including the role of mobilities.