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Tarahumara Medicine - Ethnobotany and Healing among the Raramuri of Mexico (Paperback)
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Tarahumara Medicine - Ethnobotany and Healing among the Raramuri of Mexico (Paperback)
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The Tarahumara, one of North America's oldest surviving aboriginal
groups, call themselves Raramuri, meaning ""nimble feet"" - and
though they live in relative isolation in Chihuahua, Mexico, their
agility in long-distance running is famous worldwide. Tarahumara
Medicine is the first in-depth look into the culture that sustains
the ""great runners."" Having spent a decade in Tarahumara
communities, initially as a medical student and eventually as a
physician and cultural observer, author Fructuoso Irigoyen-Rascon
is uniquely qualified as a guide to the Raramuri's approach to
medicine and healing. In developing their healing practices, the
Tarahumaras interlaced religious lore, magic, and careful
observations of nature. Irigoyen-Rascon thoroughly situates readers
in the Raramuri's environment, describing not only their health and
nutrition but also the mountains and rivers surrounding them and
key aspects of their culture, from long-distance kick-ball races to
corn beer celebrations and religious dances. He describes the
Tarahumaras' curing ceremonies, including their ritual use of
peyote, and provides a comprehensive description of Tarahumara
traditional herbal remedies, including their botanical
characteristics, attributed effects, and uses. To show what these
practices - and the underlying concepts of health and disease -
might mean to the Raramuri and to the observer, Irigoyen-Rascon
explores his subject from both an outsider and an insider
(indigenous) perspective. Through his balanced approach,
Irigoyen-Rascon brings to light relationships between the Raramuri
healing system and conventional medicine, and adds significantly to
our knowledge of indigenous American therapeutic practices. As the
most complete account of Tarahumara culture ever written,
Tarahumara Medicine grants readers access to a world rarely seen -
at once richly different from and inextricably connected with the
ideas and practices of Western medicine.
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