Wari’ people

The Wari ' or Waricaca ' are an indigenous people of the Brazilian rainforest of the Amazon basin.

Their original area of ​​settlement was located on the banks of the rivers Mamoré and Madeira in the Brazilian state of Rondonia. How many of the local ethnic groups include the Wari 'to the language family of Txapakura. Despite their first encounter with white settlers in 1798, which gave you the name " Pakaa Nova ", they lived for a long time largely isolated and were able to preserve their traditions until 1960.

Today they live in eight villages in five reserves in Rondonia. 1998 1930 Wari ' counted.

The Wari ' were due to their cannibalistic tradition object of anthropological research. The anthropologist Beth Conklin from Vanderbilt University in Texas, described in her book " Consuming Grief" the traditions of the Wari '. They practiced Exokannibalismus by bringing defeating enemies in their villages, in order to eat there. But even own tribesmen were after her death in a funeral ceremony ritually eaten ( Endokannibalismus ).

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• Conklin, Beth ( 2001). Consuming Grief Compassionate Cannibalism in to Amazonian Society. Austin, Texas, University of Texas Press.

• Indigenous people in Brazil