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YE'KUANA   

Other names:
Maiongong, Maquiritare, So'to, Yecuana

Location:
Brazil (northwest of the state of Roraima) and Venezuela

How many people:
430 (in Brazil, in 2000) and 4,800 (in Venezuela, in the year 2000)

Language:
Of the Carib language family

Ye´kuana girl of the community of Auaris, in Roraima. Photo: Ana Guita de Oliveira, 1974.

The Ye'kuana, ancient travelers in Amazonia, in the forest and the city, demonstrate how different spaces both within and outside their traditional territory can become articulated, thus creating a kind of dynamic which, far from threatening the preservation of their identity, can actually be favorable to the creation and maintenance of support networks, economic exchanges as well as of information and social and economic projects.



Elaine Moreira-Lauriola

Anthropologist, doctoral student of the EFESS-Paris and Professor at the Federal University of Roraima

enzoelaine@osite.com.br.

September, 2003

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