Itinerant is a term originated in Latin whose meaning is related to the act of constantly moving around, traveling itineraries, traveling. By activity definition, a circus is itinerant because it is never in a permanent location. The circus is a company formed by artists from various specialties such as clowns, jugglers, contortionists and others, who travel to different places to carry out the shows.
The term is associated with everything that presupposes a constant change of place. The same project that intends to cover people from different places uses the term "itinerant" to identify its nature, for example, traveling exhibition, traveling fair, traveling nightclub, etc.
It also applies to a person who travels to different places to carry out his activity: itinerant teacher, itinerant preacher, itinerant salesman (traveller), etc.
Shifting agriculture is a primitive technique that consists of burning a piece of forest or forest as a way to prepare the ground for subsistence food cultivation. It is a technique widely used by indigenous people.