1st Edition
Villagers of the Sierra de Gredos Transhumant Cattle-raisers in Central Spain
By William Kavanagh
Copyright 1994
174 Pages
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Routledge
174 Pages
by
Routledge
180 Pages
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Routledge
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This is the first study of a transhumant cattle-raising community in Spain. Transhumance is the seasonal moving of livestock to another region. This book shows the social and economic factors upon which the continued vitality of this mountain village is based: the use of communal summer pastures; the transhumant groups which walk the cattle to the winter pastures over the mountains; and the system... Read more
The setting; village institutions; transhumance; Extremadura as earthly paradise.
Biography
William Kavanagh Lecturer in Social Anthropology,Comillas University, Madrid. Acted as the consultant anthropologist for a film on the transhumant cattle-raisers in the Granada Television production,
