Animal Husbandry

Roles: herder, livestock, pasture, commons, boundary, season

The raising, breeding, and management of domesticated animals. Source domain for a rich family of metaphors about governance, resource management, and care: the commons (shared grazing land), pets vs cattle (infrastructure philosophy), herding cats (coordination difficulty), black sheep (deviance), and shepherding (leadership as tending). Distinct from horticulture in that the managed entities have agency, move, and resist — which maps well onto people, processes, and organizations.

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