Kaxarari

Área Indígena Kaxararis

Kaxarari

The indigenous people of the Kaxarari ( Portuguese Caxarari ) live in the northern region of Brazil , on the border with Bolivia. Its territory is in the Brazilian states of Acre , Rondônia and Amazonas , near the BR-364 federal highway at kilometer 42. Alternative names include: a. Kaxariri , plural forms also Caxararis , an older name is Cachararys .

According to the Funasa, around 320 people live in the three villages of Bueira, Pedreira and Paxiúba, others in nearby towns.

The indigenous people of the Kaxarari, ISO 639-3 language code : ktx , linguistically belongs to the family of the pano languages spoken in Brazil (Amazonas, Rondônia). However, the language is being replaced by Portuguese, with increasing contact with whites. The Kaxarari themselves divide their history into three epochs: tempo das correrias; tempo do cativeiro e tempo dos direitos.

An international human rights campaign by the FIAN network supported the people in enforcing their land rights in 1989/1990.

Relatives

The population of this ethnic group was around 2000 members at the beginning of the 20th century, the number reduced to a tenth by around 1980:

220 (1998)
269 (2001)
318 (2010, Funasa)

literature

Maria Geralda de Almeida Moreira: Em busca do território perdido: o reconhecimento da terra indígena Kaxarari no Brasil e da terra Ye'kuana do Alto Orinoco na Venezuela (1970-2002). Goiânia, 2005. Zugl. Diss. Universidade Federal de Goiás 2005. Therein: Bibliography pp. 142–148. (PDF; 3.95 MB).

Web links

Commons : Kaxarari - collection of images, videos and audio files

Kaxarari on the website Povos Indígenas no Brasil , Instituto Socioambiental (English, Portuguese)

Individual evidence

↑ João Alberto Masô: Os Indios Cachararys. In: Revista da Sociedade de Geografia do Rio de Janeiro . Volume XXII and XXIV, 1909/1911 (1919), pp. 98-100. (One of the earliest accounts of the Kaxarari).
↑ Kaxararí on ethnologue.com .
↑ Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald : The languages of the Amazon. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-959356-9 , pp. 43–45, distribution map: p. 44. ( limited preview in Google book search).
↑ Instituto Socioambiental: Quadro Geral dos Povos. In: Enciclopédia dos Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Retrieved August 7, 2014 (Portuguese).

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[1] João Alberto Masô: Os Indios Cachararys. In: Revista da Sociedade de Geografia do Rio de Janeiro . Volume XXII and XXIV, 1909/1911 (1919), pp. 98-100. (One of the earliest accounts of the Kaxarari).

[2] Kaxararí on ethnologue.com .

[3] Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald : The languages of the Amazon. Oxford University Press, Oxford 2012, ISBN 978-0-19-959356-9 , pp. 43–45, distribution map: p. 44. ( limited preview in Google book search).

[4] Instituto Socioambiental: Quadro Geral dos Povos. In: Enciclopédia dos Povos Indígenas no Brasil. Retrieved August 7, 2014 (Portuguese).