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Karajá people live in a 180-mile-long area in central Brazil, [2] in the states of Goiás, Mato Grosso, Pará, and Tocantins.They currently reside in 29 villages in the Araguaia River valley, near lakes and tributaries to the Araguaia and Javaés Rivers, and the Ilha do Bananal.
Although the model of burial using coffins of anthropomorphous shape and sarcophagi, was already mentioned in the Mercurio Peruano (1791) as part of the cultural area of Chachapoyas, and it deserved the attention of Louis Langlois (1939) and of the archaeologists Henry and Paule Reichlen (1950), this Chachapoyas's peculiarity of burying their illustrious deceased was almost completely forgotten.
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The Circum-Caribbean cultural region was characterized by anthropologist Julian Steward, who edited the Handbook of South American Indians. [1] It spans indigenous peoples in the Caribbean, Central American, and northern South America, the latter of which is listed here.
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Indo-Caribbean or Indian-Caribbean people are people in the Caribbean who trace their ancestry to the Indian subcontinent. They are descendants of the Jahaji indentured laborers from British India , who were brought by the British , Dutch , and French during the colonial era from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century.
Karajá, also known as Iny rybè, [2]: 1 is a Macro-Jê spoken by the Karajá people in some thirty villages in central Brazil.. There are distinct male and female forms of speech; one of the principal differences is that men drop the sound /k/, which is pronounced by women.