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The Existing Means of a Sheep Ranch in Csíkmadaras (Mădăraş, Harghita County)

Summary/Abstract: In the present study I examine the totality of the existing means of a sheep ranch in Csík (Ciuc, Harghita County). By presenting and analyzing the means used by the sheperds, I try to picture the idiosyncratic charecteristics of those shepards’ way of life who, while working are also living all summer long outside the ranch, in farming houses. Besides of reviewing and providing a functional description of the aforementioned means, I paid attention primarily to the individual/owner – object/posession report; I could focus on all these details on the basis of my observations at the ranch and by analyzing the personal narratives provided by the users of the utensils. After a comparative disquisition I tried to present the occured changes regarding the aggregation of the available utensils at the disposal of the local sheperds; the disquisition covers in time a period from the beginning of the 20th century to our days. Paying attention to the means collection of the ranch, we fi nally get a diverse picture: one can notice that even if these utensils are materially different from each other, estimating after the usage of the means, both the traditional and the modern goods go well together. The consumer behaviour has only had partial impact on the shepherds’ way of life; the recycling diagram – also known from the consulting literature – discribes well the shephard’s report to their posessions, in the sense that they themselves often associate subsidiary functions to some of their goods.

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