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The demand for women outweighs the actual population of the Yanomami women because of the growing practice of polygamy. [ citation needed ] A girl can be promised to a man at an age as young as five or six, however cannot officially be married off until after her first menstrual period. [ 6 ]
Yanoama: The Story of Helena Valero, a Girl Kidnapped by Amazonian Indians (original Italian title Yanoáma: dal racconto di una donna rapita dagli Indi) [1] is a biography of Helena Valero, a mixed-race mestizo woman [2] [3] who was captured in the 1930s as a girl by the Kohorochiwetari, a tribe of the Yanomami indigenous people, living in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela ...
Groundbreaking footage of an Indigenous community called the Massaco, living in Rondônia, Brazil, has been unveiled. Amid their population’s growing numbers, the isolated community’s ...
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 ...
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]
Juliane Margaret Beate Koepcke (born 10 October 1954), is a German-Peruvian mammalogist who specialises in bats.The daughter of German zoologists Maria and Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke, lightning struck the 1971 LANSA Flight 508 where she became the sole survivor of the crash.
White Amazonian Indians or White Indians is a term first applied to sightings or encounters with mysterious white skinned natives of the Amazon Rainforest from the 16th century by Spanish missionaries. These encounters and tales sparked Percy Fawcett's journey into the uncharted jungle of the Amazonian Mato Grosso region. Various theories since ...
The Amazon rainforest, [a] also called Amazon jungle or Amazonia, is a moist broadleaf tropical rainforest in the Amazon biome that covers most of the Amazon basin of South America. This basin encompasses 7,000,000 km 2 (2,700,000 sq mi), [ 2 ] of which 6,000,000 km 2 (2,300,000 sq mi) are covered by the rainforest . [ 3 ]