Rural Sports
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
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content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 2: Basque: Innovation by Culture / 2.3: Audio
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content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
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content: 2016 July 02
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
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content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0702_Basque_Frontoia_0001
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content: Archival materials
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content: Sound recordings
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content: Listening copies available
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content: Ailzol Atutxa; Nerea Eewrrola; Batirite Ispizua; Idoia Etxebarria; Karmele Gisasola; Ricky Lasa; Juan Mari Aramendi; Ira ti Anda The Basque are famous for their unorthodox rural sports, which arose during the Industrial Revolution in an attempt to retain rural culture as certain farming techniques became obsolete. These include sokatira (tug-of-war), aizkolaritza (wood chopping), harri jasotzea (stone lifting), and lokotx biltzea (corn cob racing). See professional athletes demonstrate these and more, and try your hand at corn cob racing!