Just like in the dog world the happiest Chesapeake Bay Retrievers aren't trying to make
a living as herders or pointers.
Not exact matches
(11) see for example, William Kuhns, The Electronic Gospel, New York:
Herder and
Herder, 1969; George Gerbner with Kathleen Connoly, «Television
as New Religion,» New Catholic World, April / May 1978: 52 - 56; Gregor Goethals, The TV Ritual: Worship at the Video Altar, Boston: Beacon Press, 1981; Peter Horsfield, «Larger Than
Life: Religious Functions of Television.»
His early years were spent
as a cattle
herder in the area known
as South Sudan, but, like many from the region, was forced to
live in a refugee camp after his nation became divided by war.
The idea that there must be a perfect society, some form of the «good
life» binding on all of us» the myth of an ideal world» only really begins to lose its hold on us in the thought of men such
as Vico and
Herder.
Herder's reference to the «invisible hand» organizing social and economic
life is quoted without so much
as a mention of Smith's Wealth of Nations.
The book is about the same thickness
as the bible, and it is written by someone with a far better knowledge of the world than bronze age goat
herders living in the desert.
«You will agree with me that even if we succeed in managing herdsmen who
live among us, the itinerant
herders pose a serious security challenge in our various communities if our borders remain
as porous
as they are ``.
They complained that the activities of the nomads threaten their
lives and livelihood, since the
herders kill, maim and rape their kith and kin,
as well
as destroy their farms.
Many
living Europeans retain traces of this influx, which the authors link to an ancient culture of steppe
herders known
as the Yamnaya.
A scrapped automobile serves
as a playground for the children of Gankhuyag, a former
herder who
lives in a ger or tent on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar, the capital.
Gankhuyag, 38, abandoned his
life as a nomadic
herder and moved here a few years ago with his family to work
as a porter.
Although English
life was beginning to change with the gradual development of cities, the economy was still mostly agrarian in the 1200s, with 90 % of the population (estimated to be around four million people in 1300 AD) making their
living off the land, either
as farmers (growing wheat for personal use or other grain crops to feed livestock) or
herders (mostly sheep and goats).