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Men generally initiate this violence, and women are often victims of physical abuse and anger. When Yanomami warriors fight and raid nearby communities, women are often raped, beaten, and brought back to their captors' shabono to be kept as prisoners. Although capturing women is not the focus for these raids, it is seen as a secondary benefit. [16]
Some of the urbanized people live around Pucallpa in the Ucayali region, an extensive indigenous zone. Most others live in scattered villages over a large area of jungle forest extending from Brazil to Ecuador. Shipibo-Conibo women make beadwork and textiles and are known for their pottery, decorated with maze-like red and black geometric patterns.
The Yawanawa community and their allies are developing a new model of sustainability that allows the Yawanawa to protect the rainforest and engage with the outside world on their own terms, without losing their cultural and spiritual identity.
At night, in this village near the Assua River in Brazil, the rainforest reverberates. Until recently, the Juma people seemed destined to disappear like countless other Amazon tribes decimated by ...
The Indians of the Xingu: Cultural Homogenization in the Amazon Rainforest; A Report on the Xingu Peoples and the Land; A Xingu case study, the Rainforest Action Network; Xingu, on Povos indigenous no Brasil; Sounds from Xingu: Indigenous Ethnographers in Brazil, Baltic + George Catlin, Four Xingu Indians, 1854/1869, National Gallery of Art
The Indigenous people of the Americas did not fit easily into existing categories. Columbus noted that they were physically attractive, with "fine bodies and handsome faces" but entirely lacking in clothing or other signs of human culture. Amerigo Vespucci found danger of seduction in the beauty of native women. The historical ambivalence of ...
The Tupi people, a subdivision of the Tupi-Guarani linguistic families, were one of the largest groups of indigenous peoples in Brazil before its colonization. Scholars believe that while they first settled in the Amazon rainforest, from about 2,900 years ago the Tupi started to migrate southward and gradually occupied the Atlantic coast of Southeast Brazil.
In 1976, Binan Tuku ventured to meet a Brazilian government's expedition on the banks of the Itui River in a remote area of the western Amazon rainforest. After some initial suspicion, he and his ...