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The start of menstruation symbolizes the beginning of womanhood.Girls typically start menstruation around the age of 12-15. [11] [12] Girls are often betrothed before menarche and the marriage may only be consummated once the girl starts menstruating, though the taboo is often violated and many girls become sexually active before then. [11]
The ethnonym Yanomami was produced by anthropologists based on the word yanõmami, which, in the expression yanõmami thëpë, signifies "human beings."This expression is opposed to the categories yaro (game animals) and yai (invisible or nameless beings), but also napë (enemy, stranger, non-indigenous).
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 ...
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 ...
Ticuna as a Brazilian tribe has faced violence from loggers, fishermen, and rubber-tappers entering their lands around the Solimões River. Brazil and Paraguay were in a war between 1864–1870, and the Ticuna chose to fight in that war. This depleted their population and the Ticuna were forced out of their Brazilian territories.
Shipibo pottery in the Museo de América, Madrid, Spain. The Shipibo-Conibo are an indigenous people along the Ucayali River in the Amazon rainforest in Peru.Formerly two groups, they eventually became one tribe through intermarriage and communal rituals and are currently known as the Shipibo-Conibo people.
Residing deep in the Amazon rainforest, they had little direct contact with Europeans until around 1910, and that contact was sporadic until the 1950s. The main reports about the Tapirapé were written by anthropologists Herbert Baldus (1899–1970) and Charles Wagley (1913–1991) and by a group called Little Sisters of Jesus , nuns who have ...
Pages in category "Indigenous peoples of the Amazon" The following 136 pages are in this category, out of 136 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.