• News of this people

• Operação Ágata 7 apreende madeira ilegal no entorno da TI Vale do Javari (AM)
  
  22/05/2013
• MPF/RO atua em 16 inquéritos civis públicos sobre terras indígenas
  
  18/04/2013
• Livros para associações indígenas
  
  06/03/2013

• Inhabited lands

• Lagoa dos Brincos
• Nambiquara
• Pequizal
• Pirineus de Souza
• Sararé
• Taihantesu
• Tirecatinga
• Tubarão/Latundê
• Umutina
• Vale do Guaporé
• Paukalirajausu

Nambikwara

Introduction

Famous in the history of Brazilian ethnology for having been contacted ‘officially’ by Field Marshall Rondon and studied by the renowned anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, the Nambikwara today live in small villages on the headwaters of the Juruena, Guaporé and (previously) Madeira rivers.

They inhabit both the cerrado and the Amazonian rainforest, as well as the transitional areas between these two ecosystems. The Nambikwara occupied an extensive region in the past and showed a pronounced spatial mobility. Possessing an apparently simple material culture and an extremely complex cosmology and cultural universe, the Nambikwara have preserved their identity through a mixture of aloofness and opening to the world.