Title: Kayapó
Portuguese language
Author: Renato Soares
Hard cover
Size: 21 x 25cm
Weight: 490g
Pages: 162
ISBN: 9786585724258
The Kayapó, as the Mebêngôkre are known, are an indigenous group who live in villages scattered along the upper course of the Iriri, Bacajá, Fresco rivers and other tributaries of the mighty Xingu river, creating a territory in Central Brazil almost as large as the Austria. It is practically covered by equatorial forest, with the exception of the eastern portion, filled with some areas of savannah.
It is difficult to say precisely how many Kayapó Indians live in this immense territory. In addition to the 19 communities that have regular contact with our society, we know of three or four small isolated groups, whose population is estimated between 30 and 100 inhabitants, with which not even the Kayapó have direct contact.
The cosmology , ritual life and social organization of these people are extremely rich and complex, as are their relationships with national society and environmentalists from around the world. In the 19th century, the Kayapó were divided into three large groups : the Iran'ãmranh-re ("those who walk on the plains"), the Goroti Kumrenhtx ("the men of the true large group") and the Porekry ("the men of the small bamboos"). From these, the seven current Kayapó subgroups descend: Gorotire, Kuben-Krân-Krên, Kôkraimôrô, Kararaô, Mekrãgnoti, Metyktire and Xikrin .
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