Cinta Larga men. The name Cinta Larga is a generic name created by regional people and adopted by th
Cinta Larga men. The name Cinta Larga is a generic name created by regional people and adopted by the Fundação Nacional do Índio (Funai), because the group wears a wide strap of tree bark around the waist. According to the information available, it is not possible to find among the Cinta Larga something like a self-denomination, a general term for the group as a whole - other than the nickname “Cinta Larga”, adopted by them in their coexistence with Brazilian society. It is not possible to sustain hasty translations, as we sometimes see, of generic expressions like “we” or “our people”, which in the Cinta Larga language are pézérey. The Cinta Larga are emphatic when they say: “We do not call ourselves, others are the ones that give us name”. In other words, it seems to take another to name this “We”, the one who, outwardly, delimits and designates its opposite. Ph. by Jesco Von Putkammer. -- source link
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