SATERÉ MAWÉ :: Encyclopedia :: Indigenous Peoples in Brazil

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SATERÉ MAWÉ

Their location:
States of Amazonas and Pará

How many people:
7.134 (in 2000)

Language:
of the Mawé branch

Photo: Sônia da Silva Lorenz

Inventors of the guaraná culture, the Sateré-Mawé domesticated this wild vine and created its processing method, thanks to which guaraná is known and consumed all over the world.

Name
Language
Location
Demography
Social and economic organization
Political organization
Subsistence
Material culture and cosmology
Territory and history of the contact with the whites
The children of guaraná
Preparation and consumption of guaraná
Cultivation and processing of guaraná
Gender and age division of labor
Sources of information

Sônia da Silva Lorenz
Centro de Trabalho Indigenista - CTI/SP

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