Reflecting Diversity: Variants of the Legendary Footraces of the Rarámuri in Northern Mexico

Kummels, Ingrid

doi:10.1080/0014184020042634

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“…25,26 Similarly, a study in the 1970s reported low incidence rates of obesity and diabetes in the Tarahumara of the Sierra Madre mountains, a group that also maintained its native cultural and dietary lifestyle. 20,27,28 The reason why the introduction of Western culture increases the risk for obesity, diabetes, and CKD in the American Indian could be both dietary and nondietary factors. As a minority population, the American Indian has had more than its share of disparities, with some of the highest rates of poverty, poor education, and inadequate or absent health insurance in the United States (Table 2).…”

Section: Current Thinking: Role Of Environ-mental Factors In Increasimentioning

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Diabetes and Kidney Disease in American Indians: Potential Role of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

Yracheta

Lanaspa

et al. 2015

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

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Since the early 20th century, a marked increase in obesity, diabetes, and chronic kidney disease has occurred in the American Indian population, especially the Pima Indians of the Southwest. Here, we review the current epidemic and attempt to identify remediable causes. A search was performed using PubMed and the search terms American Indian and obesity, American Indian and diabetes, American Indian and chronic kidney disease, and American Indian and sugar or fructose, Native American, Alaska Native, First Nations, Aboriginal, Amerind, and Amerindian for American Indian for articles linking American Indians with diabetes, obesity, chronic kidney disease, and sugar; additional references were identified in these publications traced to 1900 and articles were reviewed if they were directly discussing these topics. Multiple factors are involved in the increased risk for diabetes and kidney disease in the American Indian population, including poverty, overnutrition, poor health care, high intake of sugar, and genetic mechanisms. Genetic factors may be especially important in the Pima, as historical records suggest that this group was predisposed to obesity before exposure to Western culture and diet. Exposure to sugar-sweetened beverages may also be involved in the increased risk for chronic kidney disease. In these small populations in severe health crisis, we recommend further studies to investigate the role of excess added sugar, especially sugar-sweetened beverages, as a potentially remediable risk factor.

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Diabetes and Kidney Disease in American Indians: Potential Role of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

Yracheta

Lanaspa

et al. 2015

Mayo Clinic Proceedings

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“…I have written about persistence deer hunting in the recent past and the practice's relationship to spiritual semiotics and landscape (2011:401). Kummels (2001) provides an excellent literature review and, importantly, structures any discussion of Rarámuri running practices as essentially diverse, varying not only by region/community but also temporally: as accommodating emergent social, economic, and identity needs for individuals, communities, and the Mexican state. Another relational, situated treatment is Rivera-Morales, Guadarrama, and Sotuyo's recent (2019) work, which includes an extensive bibliography of Spanish-language scholarship on Rarámuri endurance running.…”

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Running in Tarahumara (Rarámuri) Culture

Lieberman¹,

Mahaffey²,

Quimare³

et al. 2020

Current Anthropology

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The Tarahumara (Rarámuri) are a Native American people from Chihuahua, Mexico, who have long been famous for running, but there is widespread incredulity about how and why they run such long distances. Some characterizations of Tarahumara running are also based on stereotypical views of athleticism among non-Western peoples, here labeled the "fallacy of the athletic savage." To place Tarahumara running more appropriately into its larger social and functional contexts, we combined our own observations and ethnographic evidence with interviews of 10 elderly Tarahumara runners about running during hunting as well as during footraces. We detail how running played an integral role in persistence hunting, in which groups of hunters employed a variety of methods to chase animals on foot. Running during hunting, moreover, is linked to men's and women's footraces, and both kinds of running are considered powerful forms of prayer. Long-distance running is also related to endurance dances that have important spiritual dimensions. Although the Tarahumara do not train to run in any traditional Western sense, and not all of them are great runners, the Tarahumara, like many Native American peoples, consider running, along with other endurance-based activities, to be important social and spiritual pursuits.

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Mien through sports and culture: Mobilizing minority identity in Thailand

Jonsson

2003

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Reflecting Diversity: Variants of the Legendary Footraces of the Rarámuri in Northern Mexico

Cited by 4 publications

References 3 publications

Diabetes and Kidney Disease in American Indians: Potential Role of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

Diabetes and Kidney Disease in American Indians: Potential Role of Sugar-Sweetened Beverages

Running in Tarahumara (Rarámuri) Culture

Mien through sports and culture: Mobilizing minority identity in Thailand

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