The Palikur Indians, an Aruak group, live on the banks of the Urucauá river in Brazil and in some localities in French Guiana. During the 17th century they were at war for a long time with the Galibi, a northern Carib group. The Galibi-Marworno, on the other hand, live on an island on the Uaçá river and are the descendants of various ethnic groups, essencially Carib. Today they speak French patois. They also in...
Four different Indian groups live on the Uaça River Basin and Oiapoque River, in the Northern part of Brazil, State of Amapá, at the boarderline with French Guiana. These Indians of heterogeneous ethnic and cultural origins define themselves as "Mixed People". On the other hand they also share many things and thus reffer to this common heritage as "our system". These Indians are very open to the outside world a...
Embora ocupe um lugar central na cosmologia indígena, a música foi pouco estudada pela etnologia. O artigo mostra como a questão ecológica acabou por reverter a situação, lançando uma ponte entre música popular brasileira (e mesmo rock) e música indígena.