Abstract
The “piggy” - plaster piggy bank - that as children allowed us to collect coins inside to only break it when it was full or the urgency justified it, is a symbol of saving. The ethnographic thesis carried out between the years 2011-2013 addresses the ex cooperative as a case study. “Villa del Chancho” and allows to know the reasons why Castro, Santandreu, and Ronca (2002) propose the analogy of pig farming as the “piggy bank” of the classifiers. During the pandemic context in the years 2020-2021, in the suburban and rural areas of Montevideo the cry of pigs was heard when they were slaughtered “out of season” (Autumn-Spring), this cry was analyzed, in the present work, as a possible social indicator of economic crisis, where families “break their piggy bank”, being left in a situation of helplessness by spending their savings for daily subsistence.
Keywords:
waste; pigs; subsistence work; COVID-19