Notícia sobre os Índios Anambé (Rio Caiari, Pará).

Abstract

The Anambé Indians, a tupian speaking group, located nowadays at the Caiari River, a small tributary of the Moju River, in the State of Pará, have been first visited by Arnaud in 1948. A second visit with Galvão, twenty years later, provide ethnographic information which is briefly reported in this paper, and a comparison with their situation twenty years ago. A description is made of their present socio-cultural context, liguistic and tribal affiliation, as well as some historical data on the Turiwára, Amanajé, Tembé and Anambé Indians, which since the middle of the last century have beem located in the south of the State of Pará. Observations are made about the situation of contact and the relations of Brazilians and Indians within an area where dominates an economy based on the exploitation of natural resources such as timber and rubber (maçaranduba). They still live as an ethnic unit, keep a tupian dialect for internal communication and traditional kin organization. Others aspects of their culture such as house type, pottery, and a number of handicrafts have been substituted for Brazilian models. There is also a certain degree of intermarriage with "whites" and a marked economic dependence on white merchants. They are mainly providers of game, skins and manioc flour.