Women in Rural Sports
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Smithsonian Institution. Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
setName: label: See more items in
content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival
label: See more items in
content: Smithsonian Folklife Festival records: 2016 Smithsonian Folklife Festival / Series 2: Basque: Innovation by Culture / 2.3: Audio
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Sound recording (digital audio file)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 2016 July 10
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections
identifier: label: Identifier
content: CFCH.SFF.2016, Item SFF2016_0710_Basque_Euskaldunak_Dialogues_0004
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Sound recordings
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: Listening copies available
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Garazia Utieki (presenter); Karmele Cisasola; Aitzol Atutrya Gurtubai; Idoia Etxebarria Katza; Battrtze Izpizua (participants) The Basque are famous for their unorthodox rural sports, including sokatira (tug-of-war), aizkolaritza (wood chopping), harri jasotzea (stone lifting), and lokotx biltzea (corn cob racing). Basque rural sports arose during the Industrial Revolution, in an attempt to retain rural culture as certain farming techniques became obsolete. Women have only recently started to compete in the weight lifting competitions, but have been traditional participants in many of the rural sports. Join this narrative session on the place of women in rural sports.