Being nomadic often means navigating visas and bureaucracy, regularly organising accommodation and travel, making new friends, saying goodbye to new friends, finding basic necessities and services in new places and often in foreign languages, carrying your belongings around with you, and finding or maintaining work.
It can be wonderful and exhausting in equal measure. Some nomads keep a permanent home base, others give it up completely or rent it out while they're away. Others were never able to afford one in the first place, and instead use geographical and economic leverage to enjoy a better quality of life in other countries or locations where the cost of living is lower. Living a nomadic or semi-nomadic life not only frees you up to see the world, it also gives you a more global mindset.
It forces you to rethink assumptions and stereotypes, gets you out of your comfort zone and allows you to question inherited political and cultural beliefs, biases and prejudices. In an age of increasing polarisation, nationalism and group-think, this is as important as ever. Being nomadic also allows you to vote with your feet. If the country or jurisdiction you're in does something untoward, or no longer suits you, you can up sticks and leave for somewhere better.
Sociologically speaking, human beings have always been nomadic. We've always migrated and emigrated, gone to where the work is, where the resources are, sought pastures new.
It's in our DNA. I learned so much from this now. I guess I would fit more in the pastoral type without my herd though, haha. I tend to move a lot in between places, have no fixed home and in search of different pastures each time :. Feb 12, Bili Feb 10, Thank you for the information about nomad people I strongly believe I am nomad I have moved about 20 times in last 40 years I really hate moving I still don't know why I moved so much when ever I move to a new place I always tell myself this is it, but something always happened that I have to move again.
Am so tied of moving. Thanks for your comment, Bili! We appreciate you sharing your connection to this Wonder! Sep 23, Ninja Girl Oct 15, So cool! We are learning about this right now, and this will help!
Thank you, Wonderopolis! Wonderopolis Oct 15, Paola Oct 15, Hi wonderopolis I already knew what a nomad is but I learned more about nomads! I think I know what tomorrow's wonder is I think it is about trick or treating. Missy Oct 15, We just finished learning about nomads and other things in social studies! My class never learned about peripatetic nomads. I think tomorrow's wonder is about hide and seek. Wonderopolis Oct 12, I learned many things with wonderopolis today! Nomad is a Greek word.
Today, there are very few hunter-gatherer societies, and those that do exist their society. Pastures can recover and grow new food. Gypsy is actually a name used to refer to the Romani people, which is a wandering race that exists throughout many European countries. Olivia Oct 11, Hi I am wondering what tomorrow's wonder is I really need to know!!! Hi, that was amazing!!!! Look at how many comments there are! I am so proud I wake up at to do this. From laserdudle.
Wonderopolis Oct 11, Gabby Oct 11, Nomads are really cool I think in class every day our teacher goes on here and talks about each wonder, our class loves the wonders. Hi there, Elle! We're happy you've joined the fun at Wonderopolis today! Thompson's Class Oct 11, We learned that nomads don't have a permanent home and wander from place to place.
There are not very many in the world any more. Gina M. Oct 11, That's weird. Why do they move from place to place? I wish I was like that.
I could see all over the world. That would be fun. But, I would like build a house so I had a place to live in instead of just like living in the forest. Wonder writers Oct 11, I would travel the world to see the different Target stores. Is the dollar section the same at every store? My wanderings would allow me to discover this. I think this is a great article to learn about and it would be pretty cool to learn about some more and others types of nomads. Jake L.
I think the next wonder is going to be about something invisible or hide and seek. Bre Bre Oct 11, CKapps Oct 11, I don't think I'd want to live in anything called a yurt. I think it'd be cool to be a nomad though. Thanks for posting all these wonders!
Haley and Hannah Oct 11, We think that gypsies are European hobos with fancy clothes and nomads travel too much. We learned that they move every season to a different location because of food and weather. Joseph Oct 11, I feel bad for nomads and learned that they live in yurts. And that they are gypsies. I liked what I learned today. I love typing and having fun!!! We leaned a lot of new things.
Wonderopolis is very informational for lots of things you need to know and want to know, I think it is awesome. We learned that they travel a lot. It would be bad to live like them, if we could introduce them to America, and so they can have better lives. We thought it was an interesting wonder. We all learned what nomads are. Circus people can also be nomads. I really like gypsy nomads. We also learned that a yurt is a temporary tent that nomads can rest in and carry with them.
So, we learned a lot today and liked the wonder. I thought a nomad was a type of yogurt by Iogo. Panthers3 Oct 11, I feel bad for them because we have houses and they don't. It's bad that they have to travel. I would go give them food, water, clothing and maybe a bath! I wish they had a permanent home and that they didn't move from place to place. I would let them stay at my house for a year or a few months.
I hope the ones in the circus are happy. Karr's Class Oct 11, We learned several interesting facts about Nomads. We learned they move around from place to place in search of food, and there are 30 to 40 million nomads. This fact surprised us.
We are predicting tomorrow's wonder is a mystery or a treasure hunt. Third grade Oct 11, I think the video was interesting because it showed people in the desert who survive in the wild and move to different places. I learned a new word today! The yak finally return to the home base five months later in May.
The reason for this became clear one April morning when we visited a young nomad friend camped with his yak at 17, feet, a full 1, feet higher than his main home-base Campsite,. My camp is higher now because yak prefer bang a type of sedge in the Kobresia family which is most abundant along high slopes like these. Yak, unlike sheep and goats, are able to bite off grass and to licklpull it up with their tongues. Thus, in winter they have no trouble consuming the low-lying bang which is normally only one to one and a half inches high.
And although it is much colder up here, the yaks are impervious to cold. Thus my parents stay at the homebase campsite with the sheep and goats, while I spend the winter here with the yak in our kabrang satellite camp. The nomads also sometimes set aside a special pasture or a section of the three-season location for "birthing," and move pregnant sheep and goats there in spring when the lambs and kids are due.
Day-to-day assessment of local conditions also affects their movement. For example, in late spring , vegetation became scarce around one home-base encampment and the three families moved their sheep and goats to -a satellite camp one-and-a-half hours away This saved the animals the energy expended on the daily three-hour roundtrip to the pasture, although it meant a daily two-hour roundtrip to the other side of the plain to fetch cooking and drinking water for the nomads themselves.
This kind of micro-management based on local conditions works the other way as well. In the fall of , one poor household headed by an elderly male skipped the arduous fall migration because the households at his home-base encampment agreed there was enough vegetation to sustain the additional grazing entailed by his remaining there.
This practical empiricism characterizes the nomads' system of livestock management. Finally, during the summer growing season, the nomads are careful to rotate livestock to different parts of the pasture area so that the vegetation regenerates much like our lawns for a number of days before another bout of grazing.
Contrary to their unassuming comments that everything happens "naturally," the Pala nomads continuously observe and adjust to environmental conditions. Another distinctive feature of the Pala nomads' way of life is the high value placed on remaining at their home-base encampment.
This even has a special term: shi-ma. Although all the livestock move to the new pasture at the time of the fall migration, not all the nomads accompany the herds. Instead, a number prefer to remain at the home base. The home-base encampment is located near one or more good sources of water and abundant vegetation for grazing, and is normally occupied for eight to nine months during winter-spring-summer. Households often shift their tents a few hundr-ed yards once or twice during their stay at the home base to accommodate to the prevailing winds, but never more than a few hundred yards.
There is no special order to the two to nine tents in an encampment; sometimes we found them side by side in a line, the guylines of one literally overlapping the next; in other instances they were more dispersed. We always found it interesting that living in this great empty wilderness where one can travel for entire days without ever seeing another soul or tent, the nomads preferred to pitch their tents literally overlapping each other. Even in the more dispersed camps, just several hundred yards typically separated the tents.
Generally, each tent houses an entire family, but sometimes an elderly parent or a married child who is still part of the family will live next to the parents in his or her own tent, either eating at the main tent or having food brought from the main tent.
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