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.