What is it about?
A collection of letters sent by the managers of transhumant flocks to the owner of the sheep has made it possible to reconstruct their life at the end of the 19th century.
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Why is it important?
It is not at all common to find documentation in such detailed personal letters, which allow us to reconstruct the way of life of these transhumant herdsmen more than 125 years ago.
Perspectives
It means reviving transhumant livestock farming at a time when written documentation was very scarce and, for example, reconstructing the movements of the herds on foot or by train.
Prof. Pablo Vidal
Universidad Catolica de Valencia San Vicente Martir
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This page is a summary of: Away but connected: from the mountains of Babia to the plains of Cáceres. A study of Spanish transhumance at the turn of the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries, Rural History, October 2022, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s095679332200019x.
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