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YAMANAWÁ   

Their location:
Acre

How many people:
450 (in 1999)

Language:
Pano family

Photo: João Roberto Ripper, 1989


We are like peccaries: always together.” Taking white-lipped peccaries (yawa) as a symbol, Yawanawá discourse reaffirms both group cohesion and a stable relationship with their territory, an area which nowadays comprises the Gregório River Indigenous Territory (IT).

Miguel Carid Naveira
Laura Pérez Gil

M.Phil. PPGAS – UFSC
lperez@cfh.ufsc.br
October 1999

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