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Ferns and ferneries in Lapurdi

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Posted on 2018-09-14 in
Mechanized harvesting of ferneries. Urruña (Lapurdi), 2009. Michel Duvert

Mechanized harvesting of ferneries. Urruña (Lapurdi), 2009. Michel Duvert.

Moorland (larrea) is the natural setting for the commons (herriko lurrak), historically open-access territory, where enclosures (borda-barrukiak) were built for livestock and clearings (labakiak or luberriak) opened and regularly burned (lur-erretzea) for maintenance. (more…)

Landscape and settlement patterns in Lapurdi

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Posted on 2017-06-09 in

Animal housing on the ascent to Akoka (Lapurdi). Michel Duvert.

The geographical analysis of the landscape of Lapurdi is approached at three levels perfectly defined in the high mountains (Garazi…), and which slip away southwards towards the ocean, along the axis of the Pyrenean mountain. (more…)

Burning the land, lur-erretzea (Lapurdi)

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Posted on 2016-12-16 in
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Burning of the land in Sara (Lapurdi). Michel Duvert.

Burning the land or lur-erretzea (different from the slash-and-burn farming of grasslands and woodlands, lurra atera or luberritu in Basque) is an ancient and well-established cultural trait in Europe. The nomadic way of life involved itinerant forms of agriculture based on the exploitation of pastures and fern fields as well as the shifting cultivation of cereal with fallow periods for the soil to recover. Farmers (laborariak or nekazariak) would later settle down in humus-rich (lur beltza) productive areas. Might the general term larrekia refer to the burnt plots of land? This is an issue ethnography research does not entirely confirm. (more…)

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