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transhumance

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transhumance
a husbandry procedure in which livestock are moved to another climatic region at particular seasons, e.g. mountain grazing in summer. It is a system which encourages the spread of some diseases such as pneumonic pasteurellosis.


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Evidently aware of the significance of Rawas' work for its war-driven transhumance from pre-war to post-war aesthetics, the exhibition includes a written interview with the artist u unfortunately not included in the exhibition catalogue u in which he recalls the process by which he returned to work after some months of silence and the confusion his work caused the critical community, whose criteria for success were either sanitized of politics or frankly partisan.
Any property rights to re-establish transhumance were impossible to negotiate during the fairly rapid privatisation process.
The behaviour of wild ungulates observed by Savory was not markedly different from traditional transhumance grazing practices, where herders kept their stock in tight herds and constantly on the move.
 
 
 
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