When it comes to making a statement, Anitta knows how to do it with charisma, authenticity, and cultural respect. The global ...

The singer, 32, took part in the traditional ceremony in the Xingu Indigenous Territory, Mato Grosso, receiving red leg bands, face paint and intricate head-to-toe designs from members of the ...

Anitta’s visit to the Kuikuro village in the Xingu Indigenous Park (MT) sparked controversy on social media. On that occasion, the singer took part in the Quarup, a funeral ceremony honoring the dead, ...

The Xingu region, meanwhile, evidently boasts magical anti-ageing powers – the Villas-Bôas brothers’ appearance barely changes over the course of 20 years, as we follow them from the WWII ...

SÃO FÉLIX DO XINGU, Brazil — Word was spreading across the Indigenous territory: The land invaders were preparing to attack. Remote villagers said they were surrounded by armed horsemen.

The structure of Xingu Carib kinship terminology has been alleged to derive from a process of changing marriage patterns (local and kin group exogamy to increasing endogamy) caused by severe ...

The Wauja of the Upper Xingu say that their musical ritual is simultaneously of and for the spirits. I will address some factors of their cosmology and shamanism, and then investigate men's kawoká ...