News of this people
- O SAP da Funai
09/11/2011 - Quando a cultura mata
15/08/2011 - Infanticídio indígena: traços de uma cultura em transformação. Entrevista especial com Saulo Feitosa
15/08/2011
Inhabited lands
- Zuruahã
Foto: Gunter Kroemer, 1984
Zuruahã
- Other names
Suruwahá, Índios do Coxodoá - Where they are
AM - How many
142 (Funasa, 2010) - Linguistic family
Arawá
Introduction
Living far from the main navigation routes on the middle Purus river, the Zuruahã maintained their cautious isolation until the end of the 1970s, when they were located by missionaries from the Prelacy of Lábrea, alerted to their existence by the reports of conflicts with sorveiros (latex extractors) who invaded the indigenous territory. A marked feature of this group is the high rate of suicide, intensely linked to their cosmological system and the territorial pressures seen over the last few decades (see chapter "Cosmology and suicide")
