Tarahumara

Ta·ra·hu·ma·ra

T0045650 (tär′ə-ho͞o-mär′ə, tăr′-)n. pl. Tarahumara or Ta·ra·hu·ma·ras 1. A member of a Native American people of north-central Mexico.2. The Uto-Aztecan language of the Tarahumara.

[American Spanish, from alteration of Tarahumara Rarámuri, the people, Tarahumara.]

Ta•ra•hu•ma•ra

(ˌtɑr ə huˈmɑr ə, ˌtær-)

n., pl. -ras, (esp. collectively) -ra. 1. a member of an American Indian people of the Sierra Madre region of the state of Chihuahua, Mexico. 2. the Uto-Aztecan language of the Tarahumara.

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Tarahumara - a member of the Taracahitian people of north central MexicoTaracahitian - a member of a group of peoples of Mexico

Tarahumara

(täräo͞omä`rä), indigenous people of N Mexico, mostly in Chihuahua state. About 60,000 strong, they live for the most part in the barren wilderness of the Sierra Madre Occidental, subsisting largely by hunting and practicing rudimentary agriculture. They are renowned for their ability to run down deer and horses, but are known chiefly for their religious practices, in which consumption of the peyote cactus figures prominently. The visions and ecstasies produced by mescalin, the active ingredient of this plant, are the culmination of Tarahumara ceremonies. The Mexican poet Alfonso Reyes dedicated to the Tarahumara one of his finest works, Yerbas del Tarahumara (1934; tr. Tarahumara Herbs, 1958).

Bibliography

See W. C. Bennett and R. M. Zingg, The Tarahumara (1935); C. W. Pennington, The Tarahumar of Mexico (1963, repr. 1969).

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noun a member of the Taracahitian people of north central Mexico

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