Looking at communities
A chat with Lira Marques
Lira is one of those people that contributes to the beauty of the world. She put two braids in her hair when
The beach at Oiteiros
The coastal Amazon still preserves some of its traits on the beach of Oiteiros, on the western shores of Maranhão, through its
The Panará and their children
Recent linguistic and ethnic-historical data show that the Panará of Peixoto Azevedo/sources of the Iriri River are the last descendants of a
The patriotic parade of the “Brave People of Acupe”
For days no one has talked about anything other than the parade for the 7th of September. The schools were preparing so
The community of Tatajuba (Ceará state)
You need help to see the surroundings of Tatajuba, like in the Eduardo Galeano story in which a boy, upon looking at
The community of Jaguarão
The horizon opens over the pampas, the lowlands of Southern Brazil, and the eyes drift far with the aerial dance of the
The Abadia community
Abadia is a land of people knowledgeable about prayers, Three Kings’ Day parties, cantigas de roda, and making bread and cookies in
The community of Alto Santa Maria
Our first stop on the trip: the community of Alto Santa Maria. This is a Pomeranian community settled on the slopes of
Little houses (Kukre pam)
In the village, houses are for resting and sleeping, and the Panará sleep in hammocks or beds they build themselves. In the
The Nasepotiti Village
Nasepotiti means “burnt bat” – eating bats was an old custom of some of the Panará people. Today the bats fly freely