Kaʼaporlar
The Kaʼapor are an indigenous people of Brazil. They live on a protected reserve in the state of Maranhão. They were the subject of a book by anthropologist Dr. William Balée in an exhaustive study of their ethnobotany lifeways and the historical ecology of the area they currently inhabit.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Kaʼapor
- Ethnic group.image
- Ka'apor.png
- Ethnic group.image_caption
- Photo taken by Darcy Ribeiro in 1951 featuring Kaʼapor people
- Ethnic group.population
- approx. 800
- Ethnic group.popplace
- Brazil (Maranhão)
- Ethnic group.languages
- Kaʼapor, Kaʼapor Sign Language (entire community), some Portuguese
- Ethnic group.religions
- Shamanism, Ancestor worship
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Population
- 1863
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- Commons category
- Ka'apor people
- native label