The Amazon Basin has long been occupied by indigenous populations. Those populations that live closest to the basin, in the lo west elevations, are subject to the extreme seasonal changes. Social order, therefore, is shaped largely by the fluctuations of the seasons and of the river. There are two seasons, one wet and one dry. Issues concerning shelter, transportation, food, and social interaction are largely determined by the seasons. Creative expression – mythology, religion, celebration, and visual art – are rooted in nature.
The wet season, lasting approximately from January to June, involves the flooding of the Amazon River. People are forced to travel by canoe, for there is no dry ground in their communities. Ho wever, because it is difficult and uncomfortable to move around, social interaction outside of the household is largely limited during this time. People spend much of their time in hammocks (one of the indigenous inventions), where they might repair clothing or tools. Crops cannot be grown during this time, and fishing is much more difficult, so people tend to lose ...
Nomads of the Rainforest is a film which focuses on a tribe in Ecuador called the Waorani. The purpose of this documentary is to discover how this culture has maintained their cultural identity amidst Western culture and remained an enigma. The Waorani were known as savages and likely to attack any outside influence indiscriminately. These people were a mystery due to the fact that their savagery was brushed against the landscape of an egalitarian society in which all people were equal and must contribute to their society. The message of the film is to describe the Waorani lifestyle and how the rainforest is critical to their maintaining their nomadic lifestyle that has been a part of their culture for centuries.
Like many Latin American countries, Brazil was originally inhabited by over two thousand distinct Native American tribes who’s history goes back over 10,000 years. However, they left scarce written records, hence little is know about them. Even so, today, Brazil is home to the largest population of un-contacted people in the world. During the age of colonization, Portugal flourished as it expanded its territories in both Africa and India. Yet, competition among colonizers increased as Portugal continued to zero-sum vie for territory against Spain. Pope Alexander VI fearing trade wars between two Catholic countries, declared in the Treaty of Tordesillas that newly discovered land, outside of Europe, to the west of the antemeridian* line to be considered Spanish and east Portuguese. Yet, unbeknownst to Pope Alexander VI, Brazil jettisoned into the Atlantic well beyond the antemeridian. In 1500 CE Portuguese’s explorers made first contact in Brazil and claimed it for Portugal.
...ction. Lots of indians die because of the Amazon getting destroyed. The climate is changing because of so much of the disappearing of the rainforest. In every 40 years 20 percent of the Amazon is completely gone. Sadly in about 30 - 40 years we will not have a Amazon rainforest. People are clearing out the Amazon because they want to grow plants and food but we used to have a lot of food but because of the Amazon getting destroying the we don’t have as much, and people want to clear out land for plants and foods but because of destruction the soil will dry out and we will have no more exzotic fruits. As you can see the Amazons environmental problems are devastating.
The research paper will discuss and consider the long term negative effect in the Amazon rainforest which is caused by deforestation. First, the paper will present the cause and effect of land deforestation. Another consideration is endangered species extinction that leads to effect the Amazon’s biodiversity. Finally, the paper will focus on how climate transformation and global warming affect the Amazon and what should people do in order to save the forests and solve those problems.
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The best time of year to visit Ecuador depends direct on which regional area one visits. There are numerous regional landscapes each with distinct climate zones and weather patterns including the Amazon, Andes, Pacific Coast, and Oriente regions. “Ac...
Many Native Americans lived like we do, providing food,clothes and homes for their families. Although similar they lived a lot different than we do. For example many Native Americans made clothes from animal skins and furs. Buffalo skin and rabbit fur were especially popular. They also used bird feathers to decorate their heads. Natives of the tropical regions only wore simple skirts. Some tribes wore no clothes at all. Another example is that the Natives built many different types of homes because they lived in different climates and didn’t have the same building materials. Some groups built large houses with many rooms where many families could stay together, others had small dwellings in which only very few people lived. The inuit of canada built snow houses during the winter and in summer, they lived in tents made of animal hides. In some parts of America, Natives built wigwams that were covered with leaves. Also some tribes built houses into the earth that they covered with leaves and grass. Natives of the great plains built tepees made of buffalo skin. The Pueblo Natives of the south-western part of America used sun-dried bricks to make houses.
The plants found in the rain forests can be useful to everyone around the world. The Kayapo, a people of the Amazon, are dependent upon plants in the Amazon. A research team came into the area that the Kayapo people inhabit. A team of scientists researched 1,200 plants in the area. Their results have shown that 98% of these plants are used in the Kayapo society. Of all the plants 45% of them were never known to...
The weather in Bolivia is basically just two seasons. There is a dry season and a wet rainy season. In the winter (dry season) days are usually shorter than in the summer. In August and September farmers do a burn-off to clear overgrown forest areas, and the
John Muir once said "God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." This quote is too true when describing the predicament the Amazon rainforest is facing at the very moment. By the time you finish reading this essay, a portion of Brazil’s rainforest, which is larger than 200 football fields, will have been destroyed. Humans must stop cutting down the trees in the amazon rainforest because it leads to many plants and animals being harmed and losing their homes, many people being harmed, and environment of the Amazon being destroyed.
There are many rainforests in the world but one of the biggest one is the Amazon rainforest, which is located in the northern half of South America and lies in the countries of Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia. The Amazon also lies in between the Tropic of Capricorn and the Tropic of Cancer. The size of the Amazon resembles the size of the United States from the Atlantic Ocean to the Rocky Mountains. Since this rain forest lies next to the Equator, the climate is warm and humid. The average temperature is in between sixty-eight to ninety- three degrees. The Amazon has two seasons but each one is six months each. They are classified as the wet season and the dry season. The wet season occurs between December to May and the dry season occurs between June to November. The average rainfall is fifty to two hundred and sixty inches per year. The forest floor only gets up to two to five percent of sunlight since the canopy blocks the sunlight from getting to the forest floor. The Amazon rain forest got the nickname, the world’s pharmacy, because many medicines have been found in the tree bark, the tree’s leaves, and other parts of the trees.
Brazil is an influential democracy although the country continues to confront serious human rights challenges. The Amnesty International in its annual report from 2013 claims that grave human rights abuses against rural workers, communities citizens and indigenous people remain high. They are Brazilian cultural heritage as well as important part of the famous melting pot. Brazilian indigenous people have made substantial and pervasive contributions to the world's medicine with knowledge used today. Many have been forced from their land with little or no consultation and face persistent persecution. As deforestation companies move in to take advantage of the large area of space the Amazon offers, indigenous tribes that live in the forest are subject to violence. The attempt of this work is to analyse what kind of framework in Brazil gives the indigenous people rights, what kind of right are these and if the Brazilian government respects them.
Spreading along seventy thousand square miles in the Amazon forest, the Yanomami tribe resides and maintains their culture without intrusion. Their culture has evolved just like that of a modern society, but their way of life is very different. The tribe chooses to live in communal housing; large round dwellings called shaponos. The shaponos are made out of wood and are completely built by the tribe’s people (1). Fam...
Conversion of the tropical forest into cropland and pasture began a long time ago in Ecuador, before their secession from Spain. Their major crop was cocoa, which was grown along the waterways to be exported out as their main source of trade. Due to the fact that after World War II expansion accelerated throughout the northwestern section of the forest, a highway system was put into construction. At this point in time, the Ecuadorian Amazon consisted of a few small towns that had been established in valleys and at the base of the mountains. Indigenous g...
However, it must also be understood that this moment within the region’s history was “created and maintained primarily through the circulation of media images and contacts with a small number of indigenous cultural mediators” (Conklin & Graham. 1995, p. 703). Undoubtedly during this period the Kayapó, the Yanomami and a few other tribes achieved a sort of special cultural currency within media networks and went on to develop strong media production trajectories.[i] But Amazonian indigenous groups that did not enjoy international media coverage, garner the attention of celebrities or profit from fair trade deals during this period had to find different avenues to confront forces that were putting pressure on their survival. This divide is where the availability of networked communication technologies and mobile media devices began to come into play, as access to these tools in the late 1990s and beyond opened up pathways for a broader network of Amazonian communities to seek recognition, build partnerships and register their cultures in the public sphere. Most noteworthy has been the place of computers, the Internet and global positioning systems (GPS) for Amazonian indigenous groups to establish greater