Vagrancy

Usage examples of nomadism.

Now it is worth while to pause upon that story because, as has been suggested, it directly contradicts the impression still current that nomadism is merely a prehistoric thing and social settlement a comparatively recent thing.

The rapid deterioration of settled agriculture led to the growth of tribally based pastoral nomadism.

And I certainly won't contest the fact that there are too many of us - the news is evidence enough for me, what with all these famines they're having in Asia and plague still cropping up in Latin America and the development of this seasonal nomadism in Africa because half the year the land won't support the people who are on it All this I'm giving you without argument.

Sedentary groups probably made up a much higher fraction of hunter-gatherers 15,000 years ago, when all inhabited parts of the world (including the most productive areas) were still occupied by hunter-gatherers, than they do today, when the few remaining hunter-gatherers survive only in unproductive areas where nomadism is the sole option.