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Definition of Transhumant
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Transhumant
Literary usage of Transhumant
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Managing Resources in Erratic Environments: An Analysis of Pastoralist by Nancy McCarthy, Celine Dutilly-Diane (2004)
"transhumant herds generally arrive at the end of the harvest season and remain
into the dry season, although in some cases, transhumant herds moved quickly ..."
2. Medieval Agriculture, the Southern French Countryside, and the Early by Constance H. Berman (1986)
"The order's transhumant flocks and herds were moved by a variety of routes.
Each abbey had its own group of pasture rights for summer and winter feeding, ..."
3. Cover Crops in West Africa: Contributing to Sustainable Agriculture by Daniel Buckles (1998)
"The settled Fulani live year-round at one site but shift every few years to
another a few kilometres away, in contrast to the transhumant Fulani, ..."
4. United Arab Emirates: A New Perspective by Ibrahim Abed, Peter Hellyer (2001)
"Close to the Hajar Mountains, part of the UAE's population once comprised
transhumant pastoralists and farmers who retired to the hills in spring to ..."
5. Alcohol Use Among U. S. Ethnic Minorities edited by Danielle Spiegler (1993)
"... and cyclically migrational lifestyles in two or more transhumant sites (US
Bureau of the Census 1982; ..."
6. Boundaries and Frontiers in Medieval Muslim Geography by Ralph W. Brauer (1995)
"Some of these newly resident Turcomans now remained as apparently peaceful
transhumant herdsmen yet retained their potentially aggressive inclinations, ..."
7. Famine in Ethiopia: Policy Implications of Coping Failure at National and by Patrick Webb, Joachim Von Braun, Yisehac Yohannes (1992)
"... frequency of their herd, and another 10 percent increased the frequency of
their transhumant cycles by stopping for shorter periods at any one place. ..."
8. Sudan, Oil, and Human Rights by Jemera Rone (2003)
"They are regarded as "rural" in the census, and from a social science or
anthropological point of view are transhumant, that is, practicing a form of ..."
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