How to Use pastoralism in a Sentence

pastoralism

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  • The fire and smell of a wood or charcoal burn calls forth a sense of rugged pastoralism—but could your woodsy fantasy destroy the actual woods?
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 9 July 2021
  • The Himba response to the aridity of Kaokoland is nomadic pastoralism.
    — Stanley Stewart, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Dec. 2018
  • The adaptation, created by Patrick Somerville, rejects much of this pastoralism.
    — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2022
  • Other scholars delinked the arrival of Tutsi from the development of pastoralism and the beginning of the period of statebuilding.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 30 Aug. 2011
  • The main livelihood activities are pastoralism (raising of cows, goats, sheep and camels) and/or subsistence farming — raising food crops for one’s household.
    — Vincent Kituku, idahostatesman, 2 June 2017
  • In Africa, the Pygmies and Bushmen have been absorbed or pushed aside by the demographic Bantu juggernaut, with a few other language groups also hitching a ride on the agriculture/pastoralism economy.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2010
  • Here, capitalism and pastoralism are often seen as opposing forces.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
  • Despite decades of British colonization in the past and growing inclusion in modern economies, the Maasai maintain the practices of pastoralism, child marriages and female genital mutilation.
    — Tom Odula, Star Tribune, 14 Aug. 2020
  • Today the national park has put measures in place to assure that pastoralism can work alongside conservationism: Farmers are insured and compensated if one of their animals is preyed upon by a wolf.
    — National Geographic, 5 Aug. 2019
  • Unfolding in three movements, the trio mixes stylistic influences from English pastoralism and French impressionism to striking effect.
    — Tim Diovanni, Dallas News, 26 Jan. 2021
  • Our survey also revealed that hunting and foraging was generally replaced by pastoralism (raising animals such as cows and sheep for food and other resources) and agriculture in most places, though there were exceptions.
    — Ben Marwick, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2019
  • With pastoralism and agriculture, the animal was just an animal, forever separated from man.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2020
  • But according to the Tom Nook doctrine, pastoralism and capitalism coexist perfectly.
    — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 15 Apr. 2020
  • The epoch of predatory pastoralism came to an end, and surviving pastoral economies were steadily marginalized, doomed by the scientific revolution which led to the mechanization of agriculture and industrialization.
    — Adam Kuper, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • Many conflicts play out in rural areas characterized by smallholder agriculture or pastoralism.
    — Leah Samberg, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2017
  • Additionally, there is a strong correlation between pastoralism and lactase persistence.
    — Razib Khan, Discover Magazine, 8 Sep. 2011

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