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JAMAMADI   

Other names:
Yamamadi, Kanamanti

Where they are:
Acre and Amazonas

How many are there:
800 (em 2000)

Language:
of the Arawá family

Tati Jamamadi weaving a baske t in the village of São Francisco (Jarawara Jamamadi Kanamanti Indigenous Lands)
Photo: Peter Schröder/ PPTAL, 2000

The Jamamadi are among the little known indigenous peoples of the region of the Juruá and Purús rivers who survived the two rubber booms in the mid-19th Century. In the 1960s, it was predicted that they would disappear as a differentiated group, but from that time on, the Jamamadi have succeeded in recovering, both in demographic and in cultural terms. This entry presents the scattered information that we have available about this group.
Peter Schröder
pschroder@uol.com.br
Federal University of Pernambuco
Graduate Program in Anthropology
March, 2002.
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