pastoralism

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  1. noun The quality or state of being pastoral. Used especially of a literary work.
  2. noun A social and economic system based on the raising and herding of livestock.

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  • But severe droughts of the 1970s and 1980s forced many to abandon nomadic pastoralism; they have since formed or joined some 90 villages in Maal, including Boura. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • Our Y-chromosomal evidence supports a demic diffusion model of pastoralism from eastern to southern Africa approximately —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
  • But then I realized I'd be failing in my duties as nogoodforme's official Bringer of Darkness by going against my own musical instincts of melancholy and Gothic pastoralism. —  NOGOODFORME.COM
  • Data on the structure of haplotypes and their frequencies are compatible with a model in which slow-causing variants were present in widely dispersed populations before major shifts to pastoralism and / or agriculture. selective advantage in populations shifting from hunting-gathering to pastoralism / agriculture. —  Dienekes' Anthropology Blog
  • Threatening the extinction of one of the last examples of sustainable pastoralism on earth —  International Campaign for Tibet - ICT promotes human rights and democratic freedoms for the people of Tibet.
 

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/ˈpæstərəlɪzm/
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