Mbyá

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Mother with child preparing the meal

The Mbyá are an indigenous people of South America who live in the border areas of Argentina ( Misiones province ), Paraguay , Uruguay and Brazil . In Brazil, the settlement area also extends over the coastal zones of the southern states of Paraná , Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul .

The Mbyá belong to the Guaraní . Although their settlements are widely scattered and at great distances from one another in three different states, they recognize one another as members of one people.

Their language, a variant of Guaraní (and thus a Tupí-Guaraní language ), is still spoken by 16,000 people , according to SIL International . According to other estimates, around 27,000 Mbyá live in Paraguay (at least 12,000), Brazil (over 5,000) and Argentina (6,500, according to the 2002 census even just under 15,000). In addition to their own language, most of the Mbya also speak Guaraní as well as Spanish or Portuguese.

For religious ceremonies, the Mbyá use a sacred language to which testimonies were first published by the anthropologist Leon Cadogan in 1959. The ceremonial knowledge is shared by whole groups including the children.

Individual evidence

  1. Noelia Enriz: Mbyá Children's Knowledge , 9es Journées de sociologie de l'enfance, Paris 2010, online (pdf): p. 1 ( Memento of the original from August 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and still Not checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.enfanceetcultures.culture.gouv.fr
  2. http://pib.socioambiental.org/en/povo/guarani-mbya
  3. Leon Cadogan: Ayvu Rapyta. Textos míticos de los Mbyá-Guaraní del Guairá . Boletim da Facultade de Filosofia e Artes 227, Antropologia 5. São Paulo.
  4. Enriz 2010, p. 3ff.

literature

  • Karl Ortlieb, Grete Ortlieb: The Mbya Indians in Paraguay: A religious-sociological study. 30 years of missionary experience. Nuremberg: VTR 2011, ISBN 978-3-941750432 . (From the perspective of Christian missionaries, but with important ethnographic data and information on language and thought structures).

Web links

  • Povos Indígenas no Brasil: Guarani Mbya Portuguese , English Instituto Socioambiental (ISA)

See also: Indigenous peoples of South America