Historically, rivers, seas or oceans would be the origin of any primary civilisation because of the asistance of the water to any basic organism and live-cells to florish and survive; human-kind and its livestock was not exception is this regard. Of course, plants and vegitations came right after livestock; but suitable soil & climate, immobility of plants, and time conseming process of basic agriculture, were some of the issues that animals became the number one companion for mankind. The space related phenomena, especially in the dry and hot climate of Middle East caused that primary communities formed themsevies right around the fertile areas of water-sides, far from challenge with gravity and no water in higher elevations for most, unless it was cold enough to prevent evapurations from body. Seasons, altitudes, and longitutes' differences were other scope of problems, in which each culture developed its own style to use plants and animal-skins as textile to stay rested along with his or her companions; the rest would be a graduale process of development, in this vicinities.   

There is a group of people in Nepal, called Raute. Some scholars have studied them e.g. Youba R. Luitel, Johan reinhard, Jana fortier etc. I think you can google their writing.

 Thanks for your response. It does not answer my question exactly, but still very interesting.

I know of nothing specifically written about pastoralists and their sense of place.  You might research some of the more traditional ethnographic and archaeological studies dealing with pastoralism and transhumance, present and past, to glean inferences.  Try the following authors:  Frank Hole, K. Abdi, K. Alizadeh and J. A. Ur, I. D. Mortensen, Phlip C. Salzman, Dawn Chatty, Juris Zarins, E. Hammer, S. D. Elie, and others.

 Thank you James. This information helps me a lot

Just thought of another excellent possible resource for you:

WATSON, P. J., 1979. Archaeological Ethnography in Western Iran, Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology 57.

Take a look at the publications of Fredrik Barth:

Barth, Fredrik.  1959-60.  The Land Use Pattern of Migratory Tribes of South Persia.  Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift 17:1-11

Barth, Fredrik.  1961.  Nomads of south Persia: The Basseri tribe of the Khamseh Confederacy.  Universitets Etnografiske Museum, Oslo, Bull. no. 8.  Oslo: Univ. of Oslo                     

for East Africa you might want to look at the publications of the Dyson-Hudsons:

Dyson-Hudson, Rada & Neville Dyson-Hudson.  1969.  Subsistence Herding in Uganda.  Sci.Am. 220(2):76-89  (Feb. 1969)                  **

Dyson-Hudson, Rada.  1972.  Pastoralism: Self Image and Behavioral Reality, pp. 30-47 in Perspectives on Nomadism, ed. by W. Irons & Neville Dyson-Hudson.  Leiden, NED: E.J. Brill

The publications by E.E. Evans-Pritchard on the Nuer are also quite instructive, as are Owen Lattimore's publications in the 1950s on central Asian pastoralism.

Hola Noa, quizá te pueda interesar un libro que trata entre otras cosas sobre el pastoreo trashumante. Te pego el link. Se llama las mujeres samis del reno

 http://elhistoriadorantropologo.blogspot.com.es/2012/01/recomendacion-de-lectura-las-mujeres.html

There are numerous studies that deal with the settlement of "semi-nomadic" communities (for example, american Indians, Philippine Negrito peoples), but none but the Navajo in the USA are pastoralists.