Title: Yawalapiti
Author: Renato Soares
Portuguese language
Hard cover
Size: 21 x 25cm
Weight: 490g
Pages: 162
ISBN: 9786585724203
The Yawalapiti live in the southern portion of the Xingu Indigenous Park - a region known as Alto Xingu -, where other indigenous groups live who speak different languages, but have similar ways of life, interacting for commercial exchanges, marriages and inter-village ceremonies.
The name Yawalapiti means "tucun village", the region where they lived in the past. Currently, the Yawalapiti live on the banks of the Tuatuari River, a tributary of the Batovi, in the Xingu Indigenous Land, in the central region of Brazil, south of the Amazon biome.
After almost becoming extinct in 1953, when there were only 28 individuals, the group began to grow spontaneously. According to data from Unifesp, in 2002 there were 208 Yawalapiti indigenous people. There are currently 156 (Ipeax, 2011).
Find out more about the Yawalapiti at: https://pib.socioambiental.org...
