Abstract

GUIMARAES, Sílvia. Corpos e ciclos da vida sanumá-yanomami. Horiz. antropol. [online]. 2010, vol.16, n.34, pp. 261-286. ISSN 0104-7183.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0104-71832010000200012.

This ethnography focuses on the Sanumá, a Yanomami subgroup located on the upper Auaris River, in the northernmost state of Roraima in Brazil. It explores central aspects of their vast and complex cosmology by discussing the concept of body and life cycles where special states related with the construction of the person must be observed.

Keywords : body; cosmology; Sanumá; Yanomami.