herding society

any form of society whose main subsistence comes from tending flocks and herds of domesticated animals (see PASTORALISM, NOMADS AND NOMADISM). In practice, subsistence needs are often met by a combination of herding with hunting and gathering and other forms of agriculture. See also HUNTER-GATHERER.

Collins Dictionary of Sociology, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2000

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As in other parts of Sapmi (Lapland), where there is confusion between indigenous forms of Saami socioeconomic organization (like the sita) and modern, state-imposed forms (called by 'village' in Swedish or paliskunta 'association' in Finnish), the pogost has been used for perhaps centuries as the basic unit of Saami herding society on Kola.

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