Huni Kuin
The Huni Kuin (also: Kaxinawá , Cashinahua , Kaschinawa , Kashinawa , Caxinauás ) are an indigenous ethnic group in South America in northeastern Peru and Brazil . They speak one of the south-eastern Pano languages , ISO 639-3 code: cbs .
Self-identification as Huni Kuin means something like "real people" or "people with customs". The name Kaxinawá is used as an attribution by third parties and means “ cannibals ”, “bat people” or “people who are out and about at night”. Kaxinawá is widespread in literature, but is dismissed as offensive by the Huni Kuin themselves.
They originally lived in the basin of the Juruá River in Brazil, but when the Indio groups were to be made into slave labor during the late 19th century during the rubber boom , a small group fled first into the jungle and then across the border to Peru. While the Peruvian Huni Kuin were able to preserve diverse old traditions, the lifestyle of the Brazilian Huni Kuin has already largely adapted to that of the West. In both settlement areas, the language is no longer passed on to the generation of children.
Movie
- Já me transformei em imagem . Director: Zezinho Yube Huni Kuin. Brazil 2008.
literature
- Kenneth M. Kensinger : The Cashinahua of Eastern Peru. Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, [Providence, RI] 1975 ( Studies in anthropology and material culture. Vol. 1).
- Kenneth M. Kensinger: How real people ought to live: The Cashinahua of Eastern Peru. Waveland Press, Prospect Heights 1995, ISBN 0-88133-847-8 .
- Barbara Keifenheim : Paths of the Senses: Perception and Art among the Kashinawa Indians of the Amazon. Campus, Frankfurt 2000, ISBN 3-593-36602-9 . limited preview in Google Book search
- Elsje Maria Lagrou: " O que nos diz a arte kaxinawa sobre a relação entre identidade e alteridade? ", Mana , vol.8, n.1, pp.29-61, 2002
Web links
- Huni Kuin at Instituto Socioambiental (ISA) , English, Portuguese, Spanish