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The best part of the work focuses on the study of upland livestock and the practice of driving flocks to upland pastures. The following issues are likewise addressed: animal retinue of the shepherds, mountain or summer pastures, valley or winter pastures, annual cycle of the shepherd; livestock branding; common pasture land in Bizkaia, commons associations and brotherhoods in Álava, parzonerías in Gipuzkoa and Álava, unions and communal land in Navarre, specific features of Pyrenean commons, Navarrese corralizas, facerías or cross-border grazing agreements, territorial grazing syndicates in the Northern Basque Country, and north Pyrenean kaiolars. Ancestral grazing sites and mountain pastoral establishments are also described.
Se estudia el ordeño, la elaboración del queso y otros productos lácteos y su mercado; el esquileo y la venta de lana; la matanza doméstica de los animales; la importancia de las ferias ganaderas y la compraventa de ganado. Las abejas y todo lo relacionado con la apicultura, el mundo de las creencias y las costumbres y los juegos que han practicado los pastores mientras guardan el ganado.
