Sincretizando la ciencia estante y trashumante mesteñasapiencia y destreza en el pastoreo a finales del Siglo XVIIII

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The shelf and trashumante shephred art is a key part of the livestock in the eighteenth century, heiress of knowledge or skills experienced and accumulated for centuries and generations of shepherds. The specificity of the cultural heritage was, on many occasions, despised by the Crown in its efforts to introduce European customs and practices, considered the best way to develop the livestock activity and increase the wealth of the State. In this stance had great influence the black legend Mesta, charges of constant abuses and serious damages to agriculture, and the discrediting of everything related to transhumancia. There was also an abandonment of the local livestock immersed in inertia and decline, by the absence of structural reforms, unquestionable protective laws and incentives. Besides these issues, shelf and trashumante art could consider as evolving scientific knowledge, and that at the end of the eighteenth century had reached a high degree of specialization by adapting to agricultural environments, physical, animal species, production , sociological and institutional behavior traits. Livestock wisdom that had required features and functions of the profession of shepherd, the need, periods and forms of the rite of salt, the obligation to preserve the environment, the ways of dog breeding and training, engineering of folds or corrals, the required morphology in stallions and sheep and selection methods, ways of driving herds to the pastures and trashumancia exclusivity or mastery of grazing in livestock feeding methods