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An introduction to the history and culture of the Tarahumara. A brief overview of Tarahumara culture and history. A comprehensive account of Rarámuri world view. A detailed case study of Tarahumara ceremonial healing. A modern edition of the first detailed report about the Tarahumara, written by a Croatian missionary in the 17th century.
His reports betray an open curiosity: he noted all kinds of details, not only of nature, but also of the natives and their life. He mostly tries to show the Tarahumara in an objective light. He presents the Tarahumara as a "mild and civilized" people as opposed to some neighboring tribes. But they are "fiercely addicted to magic" like other tribes.
Native people of the region, Tarahumara or Rarámuri Indians called the area Bachotigori, meaning "Place of the enclosed waters", as they described the canyon, and its abundance of tropical flora and fauna to the Spanish explorers travelling through this rough part of the Chihuahuan mountains. Batopilas is a mangled Spanish version of the ...
The Tarahumara language (native name Rarámuri/Ralámuli ra'ícha "people language" [2]) is a Mexican Indigenous language of the Uto-Aztecan language family spoken by around 70,000 Tarahumara (Rarámuri/Ralámuli) people in the state of Chihuahua, according to a 2002 census conducted by the government of Mexico.
Fontana, Bernard L. Tarahumara: Where Night is the Day of the Moon. University of Arizona Press, 1997. Grant, Richard. "God's Middle Finger: Into the Lawless Heart of the Sierra Madre", 2008, ISBN 1-4165-3440-7; Hart, John M. The Silver of the Sierra Madre: John Robinson, Boss Shepherd and the People of the Canyons.
Tarahumara Woman Being Weighed, Chihuahua. 1892 photo by Carl Lumholtz.. Lumholtz later travelled to Mexico with the Swedish botanist C. V. Hartman He stayed for many years, conducting several expeditions from 1890 through to 1910 which were paid for by the American Museum of Natural History.
The Tarahumara people gather every year during Easter week (semana santa) and drink large amounts of Tesgüino together while following rituals.According to the anthropologist Bill Merrill of the Smithsonian Institution, the sacred drink chases large souls from the persons who drink it, "and so when people get drunk that's why they act like children [...] because the souls that are controlling ...
Alongside his research into the Tarahumara, McDougall delves into why the human species, unique among primates, has developed traits for endurance running. He promotes the endurance running hypothesis, arguing that humans left the forests and moved to the savannas by developing the ability to run long distances in order to literally run down prey