Thrinath,

Interesting question. Being from a rural setting and walking almost everywhere into my teens, my stride is longer than most city dwellers. I would suggest using the term "stride" to search for papers. Below is a link to the search results from Academia.

https://www.academia.edu/people/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=stride

Hi Thrinath,

You can check the journal "Gait and Posture"

or

Sociocultural differences in gait. Ebersbach G, Sojer M, Müller J, Heijmenberg M, Poewe W. Mov Disord. 2000 Nov;15(6):1145-7.

http://www.brandeis.edu/departments/psych/zebrowitz/publications/PDFs/1990s/Montepare_Zebrowitz_1993.pdf

Basic gait parameters: a comparison of reference data for normal subjects 20 to 29 years of age from Kuwait and Scandinavia. Al-Obaidi S, Wall JC, Al-Yaqoub A, Al-Ghanim M. J Rehabil Res Dev. 2003 Jul-Aug;40(4):361-6. 

Best wishes

Maybe it is not a cultural influence but there are works which confirm that walking barefoot afects the feet's shape, regarding the gait I do not know any articles. As a anecdote, sailors have a specific way of walking due to movement of the ships on the waves;)

Regarding the effect of shoes of the feet:

•       Rao UB, Joseph B. The influence of footwear on the prevalence of flatfoot. A survey of 2300 children. J Bone Joint Surg 1992;74:525-7.

•       Sachithanandam V, Joseph B. The influence of footwear on the prevalence of flat foot. A survey of 1846 skeletally mature persons. J Bone Joint Surg  1995;77:254-7.

•       Didia, B.C., Omu, E.T., Obuoforibo, A.A. The use of footprint contact index II for classification of flat feet in a Nigerian population. Foot Ankle. 1987, vol. 7, no. 5, p. 285-289.

•       Sim-Fook, Hodgson A.R. A comparison of foot forms among non-shoe and shoe wearing Chinese populations. J Bone Joint Surg. 1958. no. 40A. p. 1058-1062.

•       Stewart SF. Footgear: Its history, use and abuses. Clinical Orthop. 1972,  vol. 88. p. 119-130.

I agree with Mr. Gajewski. Not only cultural differences but also anthropometric differences such as coxa and femur may also affect the gait.

Marcel Mauss famously suggested culture influenced how people moved but I don't have the reference to hand.

 There's also an analysis of how different belief systems affect how Solomon Islanders walk> i think the reference is:

Gegeo, David Welchman and Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo

1996    Priest and Prince: Integrating Kastom, Christianity and Modernization in Kwara’ae Leadership. In Richard Feinberg and Karen Ann Watson-Gegeo (eds), Leadership and Change in the Western Pacific: Essays Presented to Sir Raymond Firth on the Occasion of His Ninetieth Birthday. London: Athlone Press.

Apologies for the vagueness of my response but I'm travelling at the moment.

Angulus subpubicus differs between genders. The degree of the angle affects coxa. There is an animation about it. You can see the change in the gait by modifying the pelvis. 

https://www.biomotionlab.ca/Demos/BMLwalker.html 

Most certainly.  Two examples:

Youth culture - movements including gait are picked up by many people.  Look at the number of young people who walk in ways their parents would consider 'odd'.

Military culture - my personal experience shows that serving and ex-serving soldiers have ways of walking that they/we learned in our immersion in the Service.  I still now, having retired for 13 years, walk 'like a soldier' I am told.

The Hasidim here in Jerusalem have a peculiar gait, culturally determined, in which when in a hurry they will accelerate the pace, but not run as running is a form of behavior bringing  attention to oneself, which is frowned upon. The more fanatical ones when they come over to parts of Jerusalem where many of the secular inhabit will put their head down so as not to look at women dressed in a manner in which they find offensive. Another version of this is to put ones hand over ones eyes, looking down thus not transgressing those culturally defined roles in which they live.  When coming to two or more women they will always walk around them so as not to be between them. 

Gait varies from the area where some is upbrought or reared. Fishermen living on coasts of ocean like sandy and unsteady beaches, their gait differ from people living on stable, hard ground. It is also true for people living in lacustrian villages in Benin have different gait from people born and reared in Abomey for instance. The matter of gait can be shaped by the bathing african people endure while infants.

Gait and burden carrying in hunter-gatherers is addressed in Hilton CE, and Greaves RD. 2008. Seasonality and sex differences in travel distance and resource transport in Venezuelan foragers. Current Anthropology 49(1):144-153.