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Authors
Sa Rego, Julio
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Abstract(s)
Pastoralism has long offered a privileged field of research
for producing contextualised ethnographies on mobile
communities living on the fringes of society. These ethnographies
described pastoral systems of specific communities
with a feeble orientation towards the connection
of the local anthropological observations with more
universal theoretical and political debates. Times have
changed. Anthropology has begun to approach more systematically
other social and environmental disciplines
which has contributed to a shift in pastoralism studies
in recent years. Thematic publications are now increasing
with the aim of connecting local pastoralism to global
(economic, social, cultural, or environmental) challenges
from a transdisciplinary lens. Grazing Communities: Pastoralism
on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions,
edited by Letizia Bindi, falls positively within this modern
anthropological movement. From a multi-disciplinary
perspective, it brings a diversity of ethnographic cases of
pastoralism in Europe to establish a global narrative on
intangible heritage frictions related to transhumance.
Each book chapter explores the dynamics of transhumance
in a different mountain region of Europe:
Albania (Chapter 5), Bosnia and Herzegovina (Chapter
13), Finland (Chapter 11), France (Chapter 3), Greece
(Chapter 1), Italy (Chapters 2, 6, 7, 10, and 12), Poland
(Chapter 8), Romania (Chapter 9), and Spain (Chapter 4).
As a whole, the case studies permit first to strengthen
the critical argument that pastoralism holistically shares
mobile convergent trajectories of livelihood embedded in
nature and confronted with environmental injustice and
social subordination.
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Keywords
Pastoralism Biocultural heritage