According to research, nearly 70% of the tribes in the old Amazon rainforest practised multiple paternity, where all a woman's sexual partners served as the biological fathers of her offspring.

An expert who worked to protect uncontacted Amazonian tribes has been shot and killed with an arrow in Brazil, according to the government's Indigenous affairs agency, Fundação Nacional do Índio ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Brazilian government has strongly criticized a call by two U.S. anthropologists to force contact with South America's most isolated tribes to ensure their ...

The Women’s Center held an event on Friday Sept. 27, 2024. Photo by Blake Sykes/The Daily Campus. The UConn Women’s Center hosted a talk by the Departments of Geography, Sustainability, Community, and ...

Between 2013 and 2024, 38 leaders of Amazonian indigenous peoples in Peru were assassinated by mafias associated with illegal mining, logging and drug trafficking. Organizations advocating for the ...

By Maxwell Radwin Officials in Peru last week voted against a proposal to create an Indigenous reserve in the country’s Amazonian region, where isolated tribes face threats from logging, mining and ...

Members of the Marubo tribe receiving their Starlink satellite, which provided the remote Amazonian village with internet access, in 2022 (photos courtesy of Navi Global) LOS ANGELES (CN) — The Marubo ...

In modern culture, it is not considered socially acceptable for married people to have extramarital sexual partners, but these Amazonian cultures beg to differ. These tribes hold the belief that when ...

A legitimate stunner in that word’s truest sense, Colombian director Ciro Guerra’s river-trip Embrace of the Serpent mesmerizes and jacks with you, leaving you not quite certain, at its end, how to go ...