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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 ]
In 1961, British explorer Richard Mason was killed by an uncontacted Amazonian tribe, the Panará. [16] The Panará lived in relative isolation until 1973 when the government project (Cuiabá-Santarém) road BR-163 was built through their territory. As a result, the tribe suffered newly introduced diseases and environmental degradation of their ...
Yanomami women in Venezuela. Children stay close to their mothers when young; most of the childrearing is done by women. Yanomami groups are a famous example of the approximately fifty documented societies that openly accept polyandry, [15] though polygyny among Amazonian tribes has also been observed. [citation needed] Many unions are ...
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 ...
According to the linguistic anthropologist and former Christian missionary Daniel Everett, . The Pirahã are supremely gifted in all the ways necessary to ensure their continued survival in the jungle: they know the usefulness and location of all important plants in their area; they understand the behavior of local animals and how to catch and avoid them; and they can walk into the jungle ...
Pre-Columbian indigenous peoples of the Amazon (8 P) S. Shipibo-Conibo (6 P) T. Tupí people (3 C, 10 P) W. Witoto (1 C, 3 P) X. Xingu peoples (22 P)
24-year-old Samela Sateré-Mawé has one guiding belief: if the Amazon rainforest dies so will her tribe. "We need the forest, we need the Amazon, we need the environment so that everyone remains ...
"The Last Amazon of Dahomey" is a play in the Booker Prize-winning novel of 2019 called Girl, Woman, Other, by Bernardine Evaristo. The Ahosi are featured in the 2021 graphic novel Wake: The Hidden History of Women-Led Slave Revolts by Rebecca Hall and Hugo Martinez.