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Transhumance Revisited: On Mobility and Process Between Ethnography and History [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Historical Sociology, 2017
AbstractThis paper advances the argument that transhumance, the seasonal movement of pastoral people and their livestock, is a useful site for critical reflection on Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's A Thousand Plateaus (1988) and its importance to the understanding of mobility and process.
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Resisting uncertainty: transhumant pastoralism and socio-ecological transitions in the Argentine Andes

open access: yesPastoralism
Transhumant pastoralism represents a socio-ecological system shaped by mobility, uncertainty, and resilience. Drawing on 5 years of ethnographic research in Malargüe, Argentina—the country’s primary region for goat transhumance—this article explores how ...
Oscar Humberto Soto, Oscar Humberto Soto
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Agent-Based Model for Analyzing the Impact of Movement Factors of Sahelian Transhumant Herds

open access: yesHuman-Centric Intelligent Systems
Transhumants move their herds based on strategies simultaneously considering several environmental and socio-economic factors. There is no agreement on the influence of each factor in these strategies.
Cheick Amed Diloma Gabriel Traore   +3 more
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Identifying Neolithic animal management practices in the Adriatic using stable isotopes

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2015
We synthesise reported stable isotope values for domesticates and wild herbivores from sites spanning the Neolithic in coastal Croatia, Slovenia, and Italy (6000–3500 calBC).
Emily Zavodny   +4 more
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Archaeometrical analysis of Neolithic pottery from the Divača region, Slovenia

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2004
The results of the mineralogical and chemical analyses of pottery from the Neolithic period from the Divača region are presented. Pottery samples from two rock shelters, i.e. Mala Triglavca and Trhlovca, were included in the analyses, as well as sediment
Andreja Žibrat Gašparič
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The Shepherd Community of the Albanian Alps: Perspective on the Importance of Preserving Transhumance Practices

open access: yesNomadic Peoples
This study, part of a request for UNESCO to protect the practice of transhumance, provides a reflection carried out by shepherds in dialogue with pastoral agents who have accompanied them for several years.
Martine Wolff
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Transhumances in Kazakhstan [PDF]

open access: yes
Kazakhstan is a Central Asian country that was part of the Soviet Empire throughout the 20th century, gaining independence following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Prior to the Bolshevik Revolution, the majority of the population led a nomadic lifestyle, primarily herding horses, sheep, and camels—species more suited to mobility than cattle.
Faye, Bernard, Konuspayeva, Gaukhar
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Transhumance

open access: yes, 2022
Mahdi, Mohammed   +2 more
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Transhumance as Biocultural Heritage in Island Territories: Conservation Challenges and Tourism Opportunities in Gran Canaria (Spain)

open access: yesHeritage
This article analyses contemporary transhumance in Gran Canaria as a singular case of insular pastoralism and biocultural heritage within the Mediterranean and Atlantic contexts.
Claudio Moreno-Medina   +3 more
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Sahelian transhumance simulator (STS)

open access: yesSoftware Impacts
Sahelian transhumance is a seasonal movement of herds based on strategies. These strategies are based on environmental and socio-economic factors. However, it is empirically difficult to establish the influence of each factor on the spatio-temporal distribution of herds.
Cheick Amed Diloma Gabriel Traore   +3 more
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