Herding Memories of Humans and Animals

Abstract

The study of a herd can mark the point where ethnography and ethology meet. Here versions of`the social' hinge on relations between herders and herd. Anthropologists tell us this much. But can our understanding of a herd be extended by an awareness of the diverse geographies that coexisting humans and animals create? Or, to shift the direction of approach: what does a herd know, or care, for geography? Possible responses to these questions can identify the abstract and the conceptual in empirical encounters with occupied local habitats. The same responses benefit from mustering together the different registers of memory that humans and animals retain from their day-today operations, or leave behind as signs of erstwhile presence. Here, practical expressions of movement and settling are understood as one means to open out the herd's territory, and to present its meanings through the drawing together of earthy and worldly relations. This paper is an exercise in their possible narration. At its close, the animation of the herd offers occasion for comment on matters of conduct, form, and style in a longer heritage of landscape study. But you have not studied with your own eyes the long upward sweep of the land that lifts sheer at the northern corries and then once on high stretches out across the granite expanse of the mountain plateau, nor the stands of pines that survive on the lower slopes, nor the sharply incised ravine that must be crossed to reach the grazing grounds. And, since I cannot take for granted that you know

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