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6 Cards in this Set
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Language:
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Speak Kayapo language
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Territory of Xingu park
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Territory of Xingu park: 14 Kayapo villages inside and outside the Xingu national park along the Xingu river. Each village is politically autonomous and has its own chief
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Age Sets:
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Young male children (0-7) Older male child (8-12) Bachelors (13- until marriage ) Young girls:0-8Older Girls: 8-first menstruation (~10 )Menstruating girls: the blackened thighed ones Mothers: age of keening
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Successes with Kayapo alliance with Environmental Movement:
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1989-Stopped construction of a hydroelectric damn by allying with celebrities and environmentalists
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Problems with Kayapo alliance with Environmental Movement:
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European's we're given even before coming into contact
Ignoble=barbarians, uncivilized, monsters-image with Indians |
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Kayapo Ideas about Gender
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Old: senior men of the men's house, authority derives from sacred traditional chants, line of leaders New: Sons of chiefs, Brazilian educated, do not know chants nor do they have the support of the other men
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