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transhumance|trɑːnsˈhjuːməns, træns-, -nz-|
[a. Fr., f. transhumer, ad. Sp. trashumar (f. L. trans across, over + humus ground, soil).]
The seasonal transfer of grazing animals to different pastures, often over substantial distances.
1911M. I. Newbiggin Mod. Geogr. vii. 179 The summer drought makes it difficult for even these hardy animals to obtain food, and necessitates in many regions a curious form of nomadism, to which the name of transhumance is given. Transhumance, still well developed in Spain, is the periodic and alternating displacement of flocks and herds between two regions of different climate. 1931C. F. Jones South America 366 Government concessions to permanent ranchers, who do not desire the migrating flocks,..are reducing transhumance. 1954M. Beresford Lost Villages vi. 204 Sheep which knew transhumance were not averse to being shepherded a score of miles over to a new pasture. 1975J. G. Evans Environment Early Man Brit. Isles vi. 133 We do not know to what extent these Bronze Age people were nomadic, or were practising transhumance, or were settled farmers.
Hence transˈhumant a., migrating between regions with differing climates; of or pertaining to transhumance.
1932E. H. Carrier Water & Grass 78 The transhumant flocks. 1967Listener 30 Mar. 426/3 The Sarakatsani—transhumant pastoralists of the Balkans. 1976Times Lit. Suppl. 26 Mar. 353/2 The longer transhumant routes from the Pyrenees southwards to Catalonia. |