KAMALA / HOME
The Americas / Amazonian forest, Brazil and Venezuela
Yanomami traditions.
Xapuri, the living forest and Yanomami voices.
PEOPLE & CONTEXT
A place, a name,
a living history.
Hutukara Associação Yanomami explains its name through Yanomami cosmology and the relationship with the living forest. Research publications made with Yanomami authors bring writing, drawing, song and accounts of ritual knowledge together in their own languages and forms.
A WAY TO STUDY
Begin with the source.
Begin with a Yanomami-authored or community-published account. Retain the speaker, language and place. Read translations alongside their explanations rather than substituting a universal vocabulary.