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Animism [1] The Pirahã (pronounced [piɾaˈhɐ̃]) [a] are an indigenous people of the Amazon Rainforest in Brazil. They are the sole surviving subgroup of the Mura people, and are hunter-gatherers. They live mainly on the banks of the Maici River in Humaitá and Manicoré in the state of Amazonas. As of 2018, they number 800 individuals. [2]
In 1988 the US-based World Wildlife Fund (WWF) funded the musical Yanomamo, by Peter Rose and Anne Conlon, to convey what is happening to the people and their natural environment in the Amazon rainforest. [66] It tells of Yanomami tribesmen/tribeswomen living in the Amazon and has been performed by many drama groups around the world. [67]
The book is an anthropological study of the Yanomami people whom Chagnon observed. As the book title implies, Chagnon characterized them as very violent, with said violence serving the purpose related to natural selection: as noted by a reviewer, "the men who killed the most enemies, [Chagnon] asserted, tended to have more wives and children — so passing on the genes that made the successful ...
Shipibo pottery in the Museo de América, Madrid, Spain. The Shipibo-Conibo are an indigenous people along the Ucayali River in the Amazon rainforest in Peru. Formerly two groups, they eventually became one tribe through intermarriage and communal ritual and are currently known as the Shipibo-Conibo people. [2][3]
The Waorani, Waodani, or Huaorani, also known as the Waos, are an Indigenous people from the Amazonian Region of Ecuador (Napo, Orellana, and Pastaza Provinces) who have marked differences from other ethnic groups from Ecuador. The alternate name Auca is a pejorative exonym used by the neighboring Quechua natives, and commonly adopted by ...
1818-20 — Spix and Martius go on expedition in the Amazon. 1822 — On the 7th of September, Brazil proclaims independence under the famous discourse of "Independência ou Morte!" by Portuguese prince, Dom Pedro I, at the banks of Ipiranga, he would later become king and then emperor of Brazil. 1823 — Charles Macintosh invents waterproof ...
Kenneth Good (born 4 September 1942 [1]) is an anthropologist most noted for his work among the Yanomami and his account of his experiences with them: Into the Heart: One Man’s Pursuit of Love and Knowledge Among the Yanomami (written with David Chanoff). [1][2] While researching and living with the group in Venezuela, Good married a Yanomami ...
Daniel Leonard Everett (born July 26, 1951) is an American linguist and author best known for his study of the Amazon basin 's Pirahã people and their language. Everett is currently [when?] Trustee Professor of Cognitive Sciences at Bentley University in Waltham, Massachusetts.