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==Overview==
Usually if the person is a minor, he is called '''herdboy''', an adult male herder is usually called a '''herdsman''' and a female herder by contrast is also called a '''herdswoman'''.<ref>{{cite news | first=Alexandra | last=Brooks | title=26 farm workers to receive long service awards | date=2003-06-19 | publisher=The Breezi Publishing Company Ltd | url=http://www.farminguk.com/index.asp?show=newsArticle&id=607&country= | work=FarmingUK | pages= | accessdate=2007-08-20 | language= | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120205212653/http://www.farminguk.com/index.asp?show=newsArticle&id=607&country= | archive-date=2012-02-05 | url-status=dead }}</ref> Because their work is necessarily mostly outdoors, they move around from place to place in the course of their labours. The possibility exists that the lands upon which their beasts graze are not claimed as any single person's [[property]].
 
A number of [[romanticism|romantic]] [[mythology|legends]] have sprung up around some aspects of their way of life. Some herders whose lifestyles have become mainstays of [[fiction]] include:
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==Other names==
* A [[campino]]<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rtribatejo.org/galeriadesc.asp?tipo=Festa%20Brava |title=Pictures of campinos, from the Ribatejo tourism office |publisher=Rtribatejo.org |accessdate=2011-12-25 |url-status=dead |archiveurlarchive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050915072345/http://www.rtribatejo.org/galeriadesc.asp?tipo=Festa+Brava |archivedatearchive-date=2005-09-15 }}</ref> is a [[cattle]] herder in the [[portugal|Portuguese]] region of [[Ribatejo Province|Ribatejo]].
 
==See also==