Bororo people

ethnic group
group=Bororo


poptime=
popplace=Brazil
rels=
langs=Portuguese, Bororo
related=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.

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.cite web |url=http://www.sirc.org/publik/smell_culture.html |title=The Smell Report |accessdate=2007-09-21]

Language

The Bororo people call their original language "Boe Wadáru". The majority of the population today speak Portuguese and Bororo language,cite web |url=http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/lingua.shtm |title=Bororo language |accessdate=2007-09-21] also referred to as "Boe".cite web |url=http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=bor |title=BorôroA language of Brazil |accessdate=2007-09-21]

Notes

Further reading

* Langfur, Hal. 1999. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2005/is_4_32/ai_55084003 Myths of Pacification: Brazilian Frontier Settlement and the Subjugation of the Bororo Indians] . Journal of Social History. 32, no. 4: 879.
* Lévi-Strauss, Claude. [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3575/is_n1189_v199/ai_18305380 Tristes Tropiques] . New York: Atheneum, 1974. ISBN 068910572X
* Viertler, Renate B. [http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/custom/portlets/recordDetails/detailmini.jsp?_nfpb=true&_&ERICExtSearch_SearchValue_0=ED252076&ERICExtSearch_SearchType_0=eric_accno&accno=ED252076 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 [http://www.everyculture.com/South-America/Bororo-Bibliography.html small bibliography] , while Instituto Socioambiental has an extensive, multi-language [http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/notas.shtm 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
* [http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/ciclo.shtm Annual cycle of activities]
* [http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/cerimon.shtm Ceremonies]
* [http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/econom.shtm Economy]
* [http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/saude.shtm Health]
* [http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/contato.shtm History of contact]
* [http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/natura.shtm Knowledge of nature]
* [http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/loc.shtm Location]
* [http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/nome.shtm Name]
* [http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/bororo.shtm Photo]
* [http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/politica.shtm Political organization]
* [http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/pop.shtm Population]
* [http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/situa.shtm Present land status]
* [http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/projetos.shtm Projects, governmental and nongovernmental]
* [http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/socreg.shtm Relations with regional society]
* [http://www.socioambiental.org/pib/epienglish/bororo/social.shtm Social organization & kinship]
* [http://www.amazon.ca/Brazil-Sound-World-Bororo-Indians/dp/B000003I3L "The Sound World of the Bororo Indians"]