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Aurella

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English, USA
HI,

transumanza

I found these words in an article about a film. I hope that someone can translate them for me. Thanks.

Aurella
Transhumance, means transferring the cattle from one pasture to the other.
For "riperse" is necessary some context. Can be "reapeatedly loosen"
Transhumance, means transferring the cattle from one pasture to the other.
For "riperse" is necessary some context. Can be "reapeatedly loosen"
Just in case anyone has to translate "transumanza" and feels uncomfortable with "transhumance" (a word I certainly didn't know), an alternative is "migratory herding".👁 Smile :)
You're welcome! I seem to remember that I looked here and found "transhumance". I wasn't satisfied but after a lot of searching I found "migratory herding". I decided to come back here and add it to the thread. A year and a half later it turns out it was worth doing!👁 Smile :)
My grandfather was a shepherd in the "transumanza." Another way to define the word is "long distance sheep driving" or "seasonal sheep herding." Shepherds of the transumanza of Southern Italy followed age-old sheep trails that led from their hometown mountain villages in Abruzzo and Molise to the Plain of Puglia, Le Tavoliere delle Puglie. The tradition has all but died out, though sheep raising hasn't.
It might be useful for some to know that Irish people use the word 'booleying’ (which stems from the Irish word 'buaile') meaning ‘livestock enclosure’ or ‘milking place where farmer used to take cattle out of the lowlands to the hills for several months (and vice versa) so that they were able to free up more ground on their home farms for tillage crops and hay meadows.
Where I live in a very rural area of the Lombard pre-Alps, the shepherd still brings his large flock through the woods and fields by our house every spring, with his staff, his dogs and his donkey. The donkey has a leather sling like a saddle with pouches on each side for carrying lambs. To see them is like travelling back several centuries.
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