The Voices of the Amazon

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2018

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Many anthropologists and researchers have visited the indigenous peoples of the Amazon to analyse their ways of life and culture. But what would these people want to say to us? Tribal leader Takuma Kuikuro guides us through a day in the life of his village, from dawn to dusk. He shares his vision of the future for the Kuikuro people who live in the upper reaches of the Xingu River.

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0:00.0	This is the village of Ipatsi in Brazil's upper shingoo, a tributary of the Amazon River,
0:10.0	around a thousand kilometers from the capital Brasilia.
0:12.8	Takama is a member of the Quikuru tribe
0:16.0	and for the BBC World Service
0:17.8	he takes us through a day in the life of his community,
0:20.4	showing how they are dealing with the arrival of modern technology.
0:24.0	The Kukuru people themselves show us their world in voices from the Amazon.
0:32.0	That's out there, out there idea of the Apache in the poor Quixcur,
0:35.4	we have more than us
0:37.4	who is the person who in this idea.
0:40.4	So this village, the Apache village of the Qu the Quaker, has more or less 500 people in the village now.
0:47.0	In my age, we've seen here, to work in the house.
0:52.0	The moment the village is very quiet because the men have all left to go to the
0:57.5	fields to cut the Mandiocca and the women are preparing that mangyoka. A chigamette use a lot of hiladou and to hala majaka.
1:09.0	The woman is scraping the mangyaka route which is taking the skin off
1:14.8	she's now scraping the white mangyroot on it's like a washboard really And the
1:25.0	sound of the sound of the audience is the sound of the so what you're hearing is the sound of the village waking up.
1:29.0	It's this sound that will tell everyone the day's started that they have to get up they have got they've got
1:35.2	a scrape though they've got to get their own manioca prepared that starts the day. I'm here. Here, I'm here
1:44.0	...
1:46.0	... ... ...
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