The Amahuaca or Amhuaca are indigenous peoples of the southeastern Amazon Basin in Peru and Brazil. Isolated until the 18th century, they are currently under threat from ecological devastation, disease and violence brought by oil extractors and illegal loggers. In 1998, they numbered about 520. The largest community of the Amahuaca is in Puerto Varadero, a jungle community on the Peruvian–Brazilian border.
The Amahuaca are one group of indigenous Amazonians in which shamans are known to use ayahuasca in ritual ceremonies, typically for the purpose of entering the realm of spirits and deceased relatives or ancestors. The use of this drug is not recreational, but rather spiritual.
HistoryEdit
The Amahuaca, like many neighboring tribes in southwestern Amazonia, speak a Panoan language. Since the group established contact with Westerners in the 18th century, they have been threatened by illegal logging, disease, and loss of territory.
NameEdit
The Amahuaca are also known as: Amaguaco, Amawaca, Amawáka, Amawaka, Amenguaca, Ameuhaque, Ipitineri, Sayaco, Sayacu, or Yora people.[1] In the early twentieth century they were sometimes referred to as the Huni Kui.[2]
LanguageEdit
As of 2000, approximately 220 Amahuaca spoke the Amahuaca language, a Panoan language. The language is written in the Latin script, and a grammar has been published. From 1963 to 1997, portions of the Bible were translated into Amahuaca.[1]
Economic developmentEdit
Amahuaca people hunt, fish, farm, and work in the lumber and oil industries or as domestic servants. They harvest and process Brazil nuts.[1]
NotesEdit
^ abcde"Amahuaca." Ethnologue. Retrieved 16 Feb 2012.
^F. Bruce Lamb, Wizard of the Upper Amazon: The Story of Manuel Cordova-Rios, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley CA, 1971. ISBN0938190806
Further readingEdit
Amahuaca tribe (in Spanish)
Dole, Gertrude E. "Amahuaca." (in English)
External linksEdit
Amahuaca art, National Museum of the American Indian
Amahuaca, Countries and Their Cultures
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