Yanomamis
Sign in to saveThe Yanomami, also spelled Yąnomamö or Yanomama, are a group of approximately 35,000 indigenous people who live in some 200–250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil.
Key facts
- Ethnic group.group
- Yanomami
- Ethnic group.image
- Yanomami Woman & Child.jpg
- Ethnic group.caption
- Yanomami woman and her child, June 1997
- Ethnic group.region1
- (southeastern)
- Ethnic group.pop1
- 16,069 (2009)
- Ethnic group.region2
- (northern)
- Ethnic group.pop2
- 19,420 (2011)
- Ethnic group.rels
- Shamanism
- Ethnic group.langs
- Yanomaman languages
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19 sectionsContents
- Etymology
- History
- Organization
- Domestic life
- Female puberty and menstruation
- Language
- Violence
- Controversies
- Population decrease
- Massacres
- COVID-19 pandemic
- 2023 national emergency decree
- Groups working for the Yanomami
- Comissão Pró-Yanomami (CCPY)
- In popular culture
- See also
- References
- Further reading
- External links
The Yanomami, also spelled Yąnomamö or Yanomama, are a group of approximately 35,000 indigenous people who live in some 200–250 villages in the Amazon rainforest on the border between Venezuela and Brazil.
==Etymology== The ethnonym Yanomami was produced by anthropologists based on the word , which, in the expression , signifies "human beings." This expression is opposed to the categories (game animals) and (invisible or nameless beings), but also (enemy, stranger, non-indigenous).