Mexicos Sierra Tarahumara: A Photohistory of the People of the Edge Hardcover - 1996
by W. Dick Raat; George R. Janecek
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The Tarahumara, "people of the edge", live on the boundaries of civilization, in the mountains and canyonlands of Mexico's Sierra Tarahumara. There, in southwestern Chihuahua, terrain terminates at the edge of canyons; there mountains border the sky. In these pages, words by W. Dirk Raat and images by George R. Janecek are testimony to the endurance of the Tarahumara people. Today, roughly fifty thousand Tarahumaras continue living in ways similar to those of their ancestors, retaining many customs from their pre-Columbian past. At the same time, as outsiders modify the environment in an effort to subsist - and to profit - the Tarahumara have adapted their culture in order to survive. Contemporary Tarahumara culture is a product largely of the Jesuit era, from 1607 to 1767. The native people responded to the Spanish either by trying to live beyond the influence of the Church or by becoming Christianized Indians and seeking Church protection. This distinction still can be seen. However, even those who became Christian did not succumb to attempts to eradicate traditional religious and cultural practices. Rather they incorporated Christianity into their own world view. The nineteenth century saw the arrival of gold and silver miners and of American promoters seeking to extend their commercial empire into northern Mexico. The twentieth century has witnessed the Mexican Revolution and the emergence of the "mestizo age". In the canyon homelands of the Tarahumara, railroads and electricity have facilitated extensive timber and copper mining as well as increased tourism.
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- Title Mexicos Sierra Tarahumara: A Photohistory of the People of the Edge
- Author W. Dick Raat; George R. Janecek
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 136
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-09-15
- ISBN 9780806128153 / 0806128151
- Weight 1.61 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 9.23 x 7.31 x 0.75 in (23.44 x 18.57 x 1.91 cm)
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- Cultural Region: Latin America
- Cultural Region: Mexican
- Library of Congress subjects Tarahumara Indians - Social conditions, Tarahumara Mountains (Mexico) - Description
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95-50961
- Dewey Decimal Code 972.004
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