Herders in Transformation
Exploring Changing Landscapes in the Eastern Italian Alps
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6091073 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Elisabeth Tauber (0000-0003-3654-837X, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 29 |
| Pages | 114-125 |
| Publication date | 2024-11-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Martor The Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1224-6271 • E-ISSN: 2734-8350 |
| Publisher | Muzeul National al Taranului Roman (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.57225/martor.2024.29.08 |
| OpenAlex | W4404824809 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
Until the structural change in South Tyrolean agriculture in the 1960s, the high pastures were important as essential fodder resources for the subsistence farming of mountain farmers, so it was primarily the farmers who were responsible for negotiating grazing rights. The task of the herder, on the other hand, was essentially to observe these rights strictly. Historically, herders in South Tyrol have played a socially marginal role, their activities focusing exclusively on the summer high pastures. But the current situation is different. Drawing on the example of one particular mountain pasture and one herder, the landscape can be understood as a “total social fact.” This landscape as a whole is able to give us a condensed account of the comprehensive changes over the past fifty years, expressed as the return of scrub, and the new embodied practices of the herder as well as the grazing animals
Economic geography · Geography · Physical geography · Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
Rediscovery of Traditional Ecological Knowledge as Adaptive Management
Alpine landscapes in the Anthropocene
Approfittare del vuoto”
Species-rich Mountain Grasslands Through the Eyes of the Farmer
"I See the Grass Through the Mouths of My Animals" - Folk Indicators of Pasture Plants Used by Traditional Steppe Herders
Landscapes and Throughscapes in Italian Forest Worlds
Cosmoecological Sheep and the Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet
Postscript
Land's Constraints and Possibilities-High-Altitude Farmers in the Eastern Alps
Walking on Alpine Grass - Grass Socialities and their Global Connections. Perspectives From The Alpine Anthropocene
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |