Bakairi
The Bakairi (further names: Bakaïri or Bacairis ) are an indigenous South American people in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso .
The name is Kurâ , the name Bakairi has been documented since the 18th century. In 1965, 261 tribal members were registered, 414 in 1980, 950 in 1999, around 930 in 2012 and 982 in 2014. They live in the Terra Indígena Bakairi reserves near the town of Paranatinga and Terra Indígena Santana near the town of Nobres . The habitat are the cerrados , a savannah area .
His language belongs to the Caribbean language family with elements of the Arára, Txikão and others such as the Nahukwá and Kuikúru. The ethnologist Karl von den Steinen dedicated a large part of his work Among the indigenous peoples of Central Brazil to him .
literature
- Karl von den Steinen: The Bakaïrí language: vocabulary, sentences, sagas, grammar; with contributions to a phonology of the Karaib basic language. Koehler, Leipzig 1892 ( digitized version ).
- Karl von den Steinen: Among the primitive peoples of Central Brazil. Travel descriptions and results of the second Schingú expedition 1887–1888. Geographische Verlagbuchhandlung von Dietrich Reimer, Berlin 1894 ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
- Debra S. Picchi: The Bakairi indians of Brazil. Politics, ecology, and change. Waveland Press, 2000.
- Debra S. Picchi: Energetics modeling in development evaluation. The case of Bakairi indians of Central Brazil. University of Florida, Gainesville 1982.
- Edir Pinar de Barros: Kurâ Bakairí / Kurâ Karaíwa. Dois mundos em confronto. Universidade de Brasília, Brasília 1977.
Web links
- Bakairi on the website Povos Indígenas no Brasil , Instituto Socioambiental (Portuguese, English, Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bakairi - Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Accessed August 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Bakairi: Demografia. Retrieved September 13, 2015 (Portuguese).
- ↑ Darlene Yaminalo Taukane: A história da educação escolar entre os Kurâ-Bakairí. Governo de Mato Grosso, Cuiabá 1999, p. 57.