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ARAWETÉ 
photo: Eduardo Viveiros de Castro.
 

Where they live:
South of Pará state, Brazil

How many people:
278 (in 2000)

Language:
of Tupi-Guarani family
 

The Araweté are a Tupi-Guarani people of hunters and terra firme forest gatherers which moved forty years ago from the headsprings of the Bacajá river to the Xingu river, in the state of Pará.
Extracted from Araweté - Povo do Ipixuna, book by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro. São Paulo: CEDI, 1992.
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