- This article describes the Bororo people of Brazil. For the Bororo Fulani of Western Africa, see Wodaabe.
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The Bororo people live in the Mato Grosso region of Brazil; they also extended into Bolivia and the Brazilian state of Goiás. The Western Bororo, now extinct, lived around the Jauru and Cabaçal rivers. The Eastern Bororo (Orarimogodoge) live in the region of the São Lourenço, Garças, and Vermelho rivers.
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Culture
Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss lived for some time among the Bororo during his first stay in Brazil (1935–1939). Their mythology features extensively in his book The Raw and the Cooked. Marshal Cândido Rondon (1865-1956), who was to become the first director of Brazil's Indians Protection Bureau (SPI/FUNAI) and creator of the Xingu National Park, was the son of a Bororo woman. His first major success after joining the Army was the installation of a telegraph line to Mato Grosso. He not only was able to pacify the Bororo, who had blocked previous attempts to set up that line, but even recruited their help to complete it. The Bororo associate body odor with a person's life-force, and breath-odor with the person's soul.[1]
Language
The Bororo people call their original language Boe Wadáru. The majority of the population today speak Portuguese and Bororo language,[2] also referred to as "Boe".[3]
Notes
- ^ The Smell Report. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.
- ^ Bororo language. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.
- ^ [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bor Borôro A language of Brazil]. Retrieved on 2007-09-21.
Further reading
- Langfur, Hal. 1999. Myths of Pacification: Brazilian Frontier Settlement and the Subjugation of the Bororo Indians. Journal of Social History. 32, no. 4: 879.
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Tristes Tropiques. New York: Atheneum, 1974. ISBN 068910572X
- Viertler, Renate B. Greeting, Hospitality, and Naming among the Bororo of Central Brazil. Working Papers in Sociolinguistics Number 37. 1976.
External links
- The World Culture Encyclopedia provides a small bibliography, while Instituto Socioambiental has an extensive, multi-language literature source.
- http://lucy.ukc.ac.uk/EthnoAtlas/Hmar/Cult_dir/Culture.7832
- http://indian-cultures.com/Cultures/bororo.html
- http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2005/is_4_32/ai_55084003
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