Tarahumara Medicine: Ethnobotany and Healing Among the Rar?muri of Mexico

by Fructuoso Irigoyen-Rascón

The Tarahumara, one of North America's oldest surviving aboriginal groups, call themselves Rar muri, 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806148284
• ISBN13: 9780806148281
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.1"