Mexico's Sierra Tarahumara: A Photohistory of the People of the Edge

by W. Dick Raat, George R. Janecek

Overview

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; their mountains border the sky. In these pages, words by W. Dirk Raat and images by George R. Janecek, is 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780806128153
Publisher:	University of Oklahoma Press
Publication date:	09/28/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

W. Dirk Raat is Professor of History at the State University of New York, Fredonia. He has traveled to the Sierra Tarahumara every year since the mid-1980s, and has written seven books about Mexico.

George R. Janecek is a widely published photographer who has spent six years traveling and researching in the Sierra Tarahumara.