share herder

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share herder (plural share herders)

  1. Alternative form of shareherder
    • 1976 Winter, Frances Leon Swadesh, “Archeology, ethnohistory and the first plaza of Carnuel”, in Ethnohistory, volume 23, number 1:
      For this reason, less affluent settlers on the community grants took over the care of the large herds of the wealthier settlers, as share herders, or partidarios, on their own community range...
    • 2012, Osman Mahgoub, Osman Mahgoub, Isam T. Kadim, Edward Webb, Goat Meat Production and Quality, →ISBN, page 19:
      The protection of their herds is entrusted to a stockman the investors are related to, or more generally to salaried or migrant share herders from pastoral ethnic groups who have left their original group.
    • 2015 February, Daniel Murphy, “From Kin to Contract”, in Journal of Peasant Studies, volume 42, number 3:
      Outside of these wealthy kin groups, poorer households, particularly those that have repeatedly lost livestock in winter disasters, now find themselves forming a laboring class of hired herders and share herders working for myangat.