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Synonyms for sheepherder

a herder of sheep (on an open range)

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Removing the tale from the religious context (some critics fault Diamant for presenting Leah and Rachel, two of Jacob's wives, as polytheistic, for instance), Diamant re-creates Jacob's tent city and his family's sheepherding life while exploring Dinah's personal story.
Castaing-Taylor and Pa ravel come out of ethnographic film (he is codirector of Harvard's Film Study Center and perhaps best known for the 2009 sheepherding documentary Sweetgrass, she an anthropologist who codirected, with J.
(20) Contrary to Lummis' simplistic characterization of the Navajo as "absolute nomads," by the time Lummis encountered them, the Navajo built their hogans to serve as long-term dwellings but continued to move seasonally to different regions within their Southwest homeland, usually in the interest of sheepherding. In addition, whereas he describes Puebloan customs as "quaint and often astonishing" (142), his reference to Navajo customs surrounding death is dismissive and condescending.
Here, Gras moves in quite the opposite direction of Sweetgrass, in which the human side of sheepherding appears dignified and beautiful.
Most of Taylor's cheeses are from California and the Northwest, with cheeses from Old Chatham Sheepherding, Beehive Cheese Co.
I was trying to think of one thing in life where we have that kind of control, and the only thing I could think of is sheepherding. We have sheepherder dogs--driver nodes which are pretty good at controlling the herd with the help of a few leader female sheep.
(24.) Kimi Jackson, Farmworkers, Nonimmigration Policy, Involuntary Servitude, and a Look at the Sheepherding Industry, 76 CHI.-KENT L.
so far the only open reaction from the SPLM came from the deputy speaker of Sudan's national assembly Atem Garang, who is also a leading figure at the SPLM, when he was reported in Aljazeera.net website to have said that the remarks by Obeid are "selfish", and ignores the fact that there are six million Northerners sheepherding twenty-five heads of livestock over 1,400 km across the North-South borders.
Instead of sheepherding, they are busy with burning, looting, and killing.
The youth, ensemble fanned out into its community to sample ethnic specialties--and even to give sheepherding a try.
The 11-part series follows the ladies in white as they compete to win a wedding in Gretna Green tackling everything from sheepherding in Devon to cheese wrapping in Somerset along the way.
And as with all playings on words, they ring around a circle, saying more in the doubling; for inside that saying lies another: about the problem of "sheepherding" Wolfe.
Despite the fact that sheepherding played a vital role in Western history, few people know much about it.
Farmer's markets are the best places to look, though online retailers, including Old Chatham Sheepherding Company, ship to homes.
Lakeside was all about sheepherding, while Pinetop saw freight wagons heading toward Fort Apache.