Editing Nomad (section)

====Increase in post-Soviet Central Asia====
One of the results of the [[Dissolution of the Soviet Union|break-up of the Soviet Union]] and the subsequent political independence and economic collapse of its [[Central Asian]] republics has been the resurgence of pastoral nomadism.<ref>[http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0009.htm Pastoral Livestock Development in Central Asia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100128220108/http://www.fao.org/sd/rodirect/ROan0009.htm |date=2010-01-28 }}, FAO Rural Development Division</ref> Taking the [[Kyrgyz people]] as a representative example, nomadism was the centre of their economy before Russian colonization at the turn of the 20th century, when they were settled into agricultural villages. The population became increasingly [[Urbanization|urbanized]] after World War II, but some people still take their herds of horses and cows to high pastures (''jailoo'') every summer, continuing a pattern of [[transhumance]].{{Citation needed|date=January 2018}}

Since the 1990s, as the cash economy shrank, unemployed relatives were reabsorbed into family farms, and the importance of this form of nomadism has increased.{{Citation needed|date=January 2018}} The symbols of nomadism, specifically the crown of the grey felt tent known as the [[yurt]], appears on the national flag, emphasizing the central importance of nomadism in the genesis of the modern nation of [[Kyrgyzstan]].<ref>{{Citation|title=CONCLUSION|work=Speaking Soviet with an Accent|year=2012|pages=140–146|publisher=University of Pittsburgh Press|doi=10.2307/j.ctt5vkh78.13|isbn=978-0822978091}}</ref>