Grazing Communities: Pastoralism on the Move and Biocultural Heritage Frictions

by Letizia Bindi (Editor)

Overview

Pastoralism is a diffused and ancient form of human subsistence and probably one of the most studied by anthropologists at the crossroads between continuities and transformations. The present critical discourse on sustainable and responsible development implies a change of practices, a huge socio-economic transformation, and the return of new shepherds and herders in different European regions. Transhumance and extensive breeding are revitalized as a potential resource for inner and rural areas of Europe against depopulation and as an efficient form of farming deeply influencing landscape and functioning as a perfect eco-system service. This book is an occasion to reconsider grazing communities’ frictions in the new global heritage scenario.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781800734760
Publisher:	Berghahn Books
Publication date:	05/13/2022
Series:	Environmental Anthropology and Ethnobiology , #29
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	326
Sales rank:	747,952
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Letizia Bindi has been a professor of Cultural and Social Anthropology at several Italian Universities and a visiting scholar in Spanish, French, Polish and other non-European Universities. In 2009 received the Tanturri Foundation Prix for Anthropological and Popular Traditions Studies. She is presently a professor at the University of Molise, Italy.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

Foreword
Tim Ingold

Introduction
Letizia Bindi

Part I: Pastoralism as a Bio-Cultural Heritage?

Chapter 1. Transhumance in Greece: Multifunctionality as an Asset for Sustainable Development
Athanasios Ragkos

Chapter 2. The Conflict of Nomadic Pastoralism on Sheep Tracks In Piedmont Po Plain (CollinaPo Biosphere Reserve)
Dino Genovese, Luca Battaglini and Ippolito Ostellino

Chapter 3. Between Two Different Worlds: Pastoralism and Protected Natural Areas in Provence-Alpes-Côte D’azur
Patrick Fabre and Jean Claude Duclos

Chapter 4. Reintroducing Bears and Restoring Shepherding Practices. The Production of a Wild Heritage Landscape in the Central Pyrenees
Lluìs Ferrer and Ferran Pons-Raga

Chapter 5. Transhumance in Kelmend, Northern Albania. Traditions, contemporary challenges and sustainable development
Martine Wolff

Chapter 6. Revisiting Transhumance from Stilfs, South Tyrol, Italy: The Everyday Diverse Economy Of A Forgotten Alternative Food Network
Annalisa Colombino and Jeffrey John Powers

Part II: Discontinuities and Transformations

Chapter 7. Transhumance is the New Black. Fragile Rangelands and Local Regenerations
Letizia Bindi

Chapter 8. Continuities and Disruptions in Transhumance Practices in the Silesian Beskids: The Case of Koniaków Village
Katarzyna Marcol and Maciej Kurcz

Chapter 9. Contemporary Transformation of The Pastoral System In The Romanian Carpathian: A Case Study From Maramures Region
Cosmin Marius Ivascu and Anamaria Iuga

Chapter 10. Mountain Pasture in Friuli: Past and Present (Italy)
Špela Ledinek Lozej

Chapter 11. From Nomadism to Ranching Economy: Reindeer Transhumance among the Finnish Sámi
Nuccio Mazzullo and Hannah Strauss-Mazzullo

Chapter 12. Wandering Shepherds: New and Old Transhumances in Sardinia and Sicily
Sebastiano Mannia

Chapter 13. The Coexistence of Transhumance Shepherding Practices and Tourism on Bielašnica Mountain in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Manca Filak and Žiga Gorišek

Afterword: Desire for Transhumance
Cyril Isnard

Index

Editorial Reviews

“The book efficiently presents links between local practice, landscape conservation, and cultural heritage, as needs to be sustained and promoted at a European scale for sustainable tourism, local development, and rural communities.” • Luca Battaglini, University of Padova

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