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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.
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 ...
Carl Lumholtz: <i>Tarahumara Woman Being Weighed</i>, Barranca de San Carlos (Sinforosa), Chihuahua, 1892; from <i>Among Unknown Tribes: Rediscovering the Photographs of Explorer Carl Lumholtz</i>. The book includes essays by Bill Broyles, Ann Christine Eek, and others, and is published by the University of Texas Press. Width: 1,950 px: Height ...
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The nonfiction book Born to Run by Christopher McDougall, chronicling the story of ultra-runner Micah True in the Copper Canyon with the Tarahumara Indians, who taught him a better way to run. [5] [6] True was the race director of the Copper Canyon Ultra Marathon, [7] [8] which ends in Urique's plaza. The race covers 50 miles (80 km) of single ...
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.
In southwestern Chihuahua, Indians are outnumbered by mestizos by as much as three to one and this ratio increased as economic enterprises grew in the 1970 and 1980s. Logging in this densely forested area has become particularly important as an alternative to the heavily exploited Tarahumara woodlands north of the Río Verde.
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 ...