Kayapo - Wikipedia
Kayapo women, Pará State, Brazil. The Kayapo use intricate black body paint covering their entire bodies. They believe that their ancestors learned their social skills from insects, so they paint their bodies to mimic them and to better communicate with the Spirit that exists everywhere.
Menire, the life of the Kayapó woman and her home
Meet the women from the Kayapó tribe. By Memorial dos Povos Indígenas. Mulheres da Aldeia Kubenkokre (2019) by Cleber Oliveira de Araújo Memorial dos Povos Indígenas. Front Line. We, Kayapó...
The Kayapo People - Kayapo Project
Kayapo women are renowned for their fearless leadership and unwavering commitment to defending the political interests of their community. They stand as outspoken advocates, boldly championing causes vital to their people’s well-being and rights.
Kayapo Courage - National Geographic
With an orphaned spider monkey on her shoulders, Nhàktàt, a young Kayapo woman, strolls in Kendjam, a village in northern Brazil. Kayapo sometimes raise infant monkeys and other stranded o...
Menire, a Kayapó woman and her work — Google Arts & Culture
The women spend a lot of time rehearsing the songs and dances to perform in the main courtyard of the village. They spend the day doing body painting, and on performance days, the honored women...
Mebêngôkre (Kayapó) - Indigenous Peoples in Brazil
Women are responsible for managing the swiddens, usually cultivated within a radius of four to six kilometres around the village. Each family possesses its own swiddens containing staple crops such as sweet potato, maize, sugar cane, bananas and manioc, extremely rich in calories.
'This Is My Land': The Indigenous Women Chiefs Protecting the Amazon - VICE
2017年6月15日 · Women have been considered as important to their society as men—for example, they are responsible for Kayapo body painting rituals—but the rise of female chiefs has seen women take on roles...
'This Is My Land': The Indigenous Women Chiefs Protecting the …
For decades, Brazil's Kayapo tribe has battled deforestation of their home. Now women are at the frontlines of the fight to save the rainforest. Concealed among dense Amazonian rainforest and grassy savannas are the simple palm-thatched dwellings of the Kayapo, one of Brazil's best-known indigenous groups.
'This Is My Land': The Indigenous Kayapo Women at the frontlines
Over the past three decades, Kayapo communities have been increasingly exposed to the outside world, bringing major shifts in the tribe's social structure. One of the more recent and unexpected changes has been the emergence of three women chiefs, who are now in charge of villages spread across a vast swath of Amazonian rainforest.”
Blood Gold in the Brazilian Rain Forest - The New Yorker
2019年11月4日 · One day in 2014, Belém, a member of Brazil’s Kayapo tribe, went deep into the forest to hunt macaws and parrots. He was helping to prepare for a coming-of-age ceremony, in which young men are ...