Approach to cultural heritage: Attire and changes in the Rarámuris of Chihuahua, Mexico

Abstract

The manuscript explores the usual and traditional clothing of the Rarámuri people, better known as Tarahumara. Its worldview permeates the attires, designs, and colors chosen, pure taste, but of a beauty, which relates it to immediacy. Like its relationship with nature, based on respect, this situation frames it in the activity of tourism, in the sense of differentiation of cultural heritage. In short, the historical character and environmental conditions make up cultural patterns that are reflected in the clothing and in the way in which it wears it, understood culture as a set of beliefs, attitudes and customs, which influence the way of proceeding, thinking and celebrating. Changes in social dynamics and the migration of Tarahumara have constituted changes in lifestyle and the adoption of materials, such as the use of ready-made industrial clothing influenced by globalization.