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A shabono (also xapono, shapono, or yano) is a hut used by the Yanomami, an indigenous people in extreme southern Venezuela and extreme northern Brazil. [ 1 ] Used as temporary homes, traditionally constructed mainly of thatched palm leaves and wood, shabonos are built in clearings in the jungle, using the wood cleared to build a palisade with ...
As a result, new shabonos are constructed every 4 to 6 years. The Yanomami can be classified as foraging horticulturalists, depending heavily on rainforest resources; they use slash-and-burn horticulture, grow bananas, gather fruit, and hunt animals and fish. Crops compose up to 75% of the calories in the Yanomami diet.
The Yanomami Indigenous Territory was created through a series of steps that began with ordinance 1.817 of 8 January 1985 and led to the first homologation on 16 February 1989. [2] The Roraima National Forest was created by decree nº 97545 of 1 March 1989 and covered 2,664,685 hectares (6,584,580 acres) of the Amazon biome . [ 4 ]
For about the first hour of their documentary “The Falling Sky,” Brazilian directors Eryk Rocha and Gabriela Carneiro da Cunha introduce us to the traditions and ongoing plight of the Yanomami ...
In partnership with The Shed in New York City, the exhibition highlights the Yanomami people; one of the largest indigenous groups living in the Amazonia today.
Largely uncontacted by the outside world, the Yanomami have been affected by illnesses introduced by gold miners since the 1980s. [4] Anthropological studies have emphasized that the Yanomami are a violent people, and although this can be true, the women of the Yanomami culture generally abstain from violence and warfare. Although males ...
A representative of Brazil's Yanomami people said he met Pope Francis on Wednesday to ask him to support Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's efforts to save his indigenous people.
Ama̧hiri-teri is the village and people of Ya̧nomamö mythology thought to inhabit the desolate underworld, Hei tä bebi.According to Ya̧nomamö folklore they had originally inhabited the earth, Hei kä misi, but when a piece of Hedu kä misi (heaven) fell down it fell onto Ama̧hiri-teri, creating a hole and carrying the village and people through. [1]