pastoralists
Nomadic animal raisers
Pastoralists are people who raise livestock by moving herds to fresh grazing land rather than keeping them in one place.
The practice—pastoralism—has shaped cultures across Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East for millennia.
Pastoralists and farmers often compete for the same land.
The term appears most often in anthropology and development contexts.
Movement to new territory
- nomadismMigratory way of life
- mobileCapable of movement
- campsTemporary outdoor lodgings
- yurtsPortable circular tent homes
tents · Bedouins · Tuareg · Maasai · Fulani · Kazakhs · Mongols · Sami
Those who tend flocks
- goatherdsTenders of caprines
- cowherdsThose who tend cattle
- droversLivestock transporters on foot
- stockmenLivestock farm workers
ranchers · sheepdog · flock · herd · grazing · milking · cheesemaking · shearing
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
- sheepWoolly farm animal
- goatsHorned farm ruminants
- camelsHumped desert mammals
- yaksTalks endlessly, or Asian oxen
llamas · alpacas · reindeer · horses · donkeys · bovine · ovine · caprine
Long-established customs passed down
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
- tribeSocial group sharing ancestry
elders · oral history · folklore · ceremonies · rituals · indigenous · ancestral · lineage
migration
Movement to new territory
yurts · tents · Bedouins · Tuareg · Maasai · Fulani · Kazakhs · Mongols · Sami · Tibetans
shepherds
Those who tend flocks
stockmen · ranchers · sheepdog · flock · herd · grazing · milking · cheesemaking · shearing · branding
cattle
Domesticated bovines kept commercially
yaks · llamas · alpacas · reindeer · horses · donkeys · bovine · ovine · caprine · camelids
traditions
Long-established customs passed down
- customsTraditional practices or import taxes
- heritageInherited cultural legacy
- clanRelated group sharing ancestry
tribe · elders · oral history · folklore · ceremonies · rituals · indigenous · ancestral · lineage · ethnography
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- nomadic lifenomads, yurt, wanderers, tent, Bedouins
- nomadsnomad, nomadism, Bedouin, wanderer, roaming
- pastoral lifeshepherds, shepherding, herders, herding, herdsmen
- Australian HistoryCaptain Cook, Commonwealth, federation, explorers, Liberal Party
- Herding Peoplesherders, nomads, herdsmen, shepherds, goatherds
pastoralistsfarmers
Land-cultivating occupation holders
agriculturalists · cultivators · tillers · horticulturalists · rice farmers
pastoralistsindustrialists
Owners of manufacturing enterprises
factory workers · urbanites · manufacturers · miners · merchants