id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_rghlydmuhfaifcx4oxzhwkie4a Gordon M. Sayre The Oxymoron of American Pastoralism 2013.0 25 .pdf application/pdf 9706 593 61 States; and ecologically because the pastoral way of life, defined as a subsistence based upon herds of livestock, was not indigenous to America. Westling, however, have traced the origins of pastoral back to the earliest extant writings concerning the conflict between nomadic pastoralists and settled agriculturalists, the Sumerian and Akkadian literature rely on gathering and hunting for their food, neither land nor wild animals can be claimed as the property of any one individual. of America as a "virgin land," so fundamental to theories of American frontier pastoralism from Henry Nash Smith to Annette Kolodny, indigenous American peoples practiced an agricultural and/or a huntergatherer subsistence, but not a nomadic pastoralism. not wish to create a pastoral sheep-herding economy in New England numbers of the domestic animals." This "new mode of life, the pastoral" American pastoral nature writing, by J. If a new consumerist pastoralism inspires Americans to shut down ———."Pastoralism in America." Ideology and Classic American Literature. ./cache/work_rghlydmuhfaifcx4oxzhwkie4a.pdf ./txt/work_rghlydmuhfaifcx4oxzhwkie4a.txt