What language does the Achuar tribe speak?
What language does the Achuar tribe speak?
Shiwiar, also known as Achuar, Jivaro, Maina, is a Chicham language spoken along the Pastaza and Bobonaza rivers in Ecuador.
Where are the Achuar from?
The Achuar are an Amazonian community of some 18,500 individuals along either side of the border in between Ecuador and Peru. As of the early 1970s, the Achuar were one of the last of the Jivaroan groups still generally unaffected by outside contact.
Where do the Achuar live?
The Achuar live in the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Amazon. The name Achuar means ‘the people of the aguaje palm’, which shows how closely linked their identity is with the habitat of the Amazonian rainforest.
How do the Achuar live?
Throughout their history, the Achuar have been self-sufficient and autonomous, sustaining their family groups through hunting and gardening. Once semi-nomadic people, most Achuar now live in small villages, a result of contact with Christian missionaries in the 1960s.
Who studied the Achuar of the Amazon?
Anthropologist Philippe Descola
Anthropologist Philippe Descola has won the 2014 International Cosmos Prize, a Japanese award, for his study of the isolated Jivaroan Achuar people of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Their lives had previously been unknown to the wider world.
What are the main threats to the Achuar tribe?
The Achuar people, who have lived for thousands of years in the rainforest, allege that the company contaminated their territory during more than 30 years of oil drilling, making their people sick, even causing some to die, and damaging their land and livelihoods beyond repair.
What threats do the Achuar tribe face?
What did the Achuar hunt with?
The Achuar live without electricity. They have no automobiles or roads. They hunt with blowguns and curare darts. They believe the dreams they have while consuming hallucinogenic plants all come true.
