Title: Waura
Author: Renato Soares
Portuguese language
Hard cover
Size: 21 x 25cm
Weight: 490g
Pages: 162
ISBN: 9786599753664
The Waurá (Wauja) are an indigenous group that inhabits the Xingu Indigenous Land, and according to data from 2014 there were around 540 individuals. They are integrated into the cultural system of the people of the Upper Xingu, speakers of Maipure, a language of the Arawak (Arawak) trunk, as well as the Yawalapiti, the Meninako and other groups in the region.
The Xingú Indigenous Park, in the Brazilian Center-West, is one of the largest and most important indigenous national parks in the world. The Waurá are known for the uniqueness of their ceramics, the graphics on their baskets, their feather art and ritual masks. In addition to the richness of their material culture, these people have a complex and fascinating myth-cosmology, in which the links between animals, things, humans and extra-human beings permeate their conception of the world, and are crucial in the practices of shamanism.
Find out more about the Waurá People at: https://pib.socioambiental.org...
