Pastoral areas and actors: between pastoralism and pastorality

Abstract

In its first issue, in 1913, the Revue de Geographie Alpine published an article by Philippe Arbos on the pastoral economy of some of the valleys in the Savoie region of France (Economie pastorale dans quelques vallees savoyardes), in which he made the following observation: “livestock is the main, if not the only, resource: the farmer lives from livestock and lives well (translation).” Over the past century, rural society has undergone considerable change and the concept of pastoralism has b...