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  • There are 22 familes living at Itacoatiara Mirim, a Baniwa Community around São Gabriel da Cachoeira town. To recover their traditions after leaving the original tribe, they built this &quot;Maloca&quot;, also known as House of Knowledge. <br />
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&quot;House of Knowledge is an area of transmission and learning of the traditional culture for those who do not know or forgot. It's to talk, tell stories of past, reliving the custom to eat together. A place to dance, make instruments, showing the young our culture&quot; explained Mestre Luiz Laureano, community leader. &quot;The House of Knowledge is also to receive relatives who come from the original tribe to share with us the stories of our family who were there. Is a school that will pass knowledge. &quot;<br />
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São Gabriel da Cachoeira town, Amazonas, Brazil.
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  • Lion traditional dance presentation at ancient Cha Tang Village, at Guangzhou periphery. The Chinese Southern Lion dance originated from Guangdong state, the homeland of the Chinese southern style lion. The Chinese southern horned lions are believed to be mythological Nians.<br />
Guangdong, China.
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  • Lady playing a traditional chinese violin, a handmade erhu.
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  • A Manoki (Irantxe) boy playing a traditional flute that is part of their initiation, when the boys are from 12 to 14 years old.
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  • Lady playing a traditional chinese violin, a handmade erhu.
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  • Lady playing a traditional chinese violin, a handmade erhu.
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  • Fans enjoy a long history of about 3 thousand years in China.<br />
The Chinese Fan is the part of the principal section of traditional Chinese folk custom that became part of the social status for the Chinese people.
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  • Kayapo woman preparing to paint their traditional tatoos with Genipapo ink.
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  • Manoki (Irantxe) men and boy playing their traditional flutes.
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  • Lady playing a traditional chinese violin, a handmade erhu.
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  • Kayapo child
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  • Party time, celebration dance and flutes at the House of Knowledge. Tools and connections to empower the community.<br />
Holding tight.
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  • Chinese opera survived the passing of the centuries, the coming and going of dynasties, and has many strong female roles, though for most of its history, no females to play them. Women in China, especially of the upper class, had to observe very reserved and controlled conduct, and for the most part confined themselves indoors. It was only in the beginning in the 1930s, it became acceptable for women to perform in the opera.
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  • Bororo People dances the Jaguar dance at the Indigenous National Party.
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  • Kayapo women at Indigenous National Party.
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  • Kayapo women dance before the Indigenous National opening.
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  • Brazil, Indigenous. Kayapo women celebrating at the ritual, before the Indigenous National Party.
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  • Terena ritual and dance of fire, celebrationg the Indigenous National Party.
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  • Demonstration of the Huka-Huka, a wrestling match. Facing each other, the wrestlers imitate the grunting of the jaguar.
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  • Terena People painting for the Indigenous National Party.
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  • Assurini woman
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  • Kayapo woman.
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  • A daily women talk beside the red banners, from the past Spring Festival, hanged on each side and top of the door, creates the symbolic gateway on the house and add meanings of joy, luck and passion, with written messages that are usually intended to keep the bad spirits away and bring luck into the house.<br />
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Some also stick directly on their door the image of the "door god", as ghost catchers, to make sure that bad spirits could not get into the house.
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  • Kayapo woman
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  • Assurini xama smoking in his ritual before the opening of the Indigenous Festival.
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  • Bororo warrior
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  • Kayapo warrior
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  • Young Terena man
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  • Assurini warrior
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  • Kayapo warrior
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  • Yawalapiti girl sleeps on mother's shoulder during the event.
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  • Kayapo child at the Indigenous National Party.
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  • Xerente People dancing during the Indigenous Festival.
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  • Ritual dance of Kayapo, Indigenous National Party.
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  • Rikbaktsa girl during the Indigenous National Party, Bertioga city, São Paulo state of Brazil.
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  • So closely bound up that is hard to say where one begins and the other ends. Historical figures are made into gods and myths are recounted as history, and those that inhabited the ancient texts, are alive and well in the 21th century.<br />
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A diverse heritage has given rise to a body of stories that is a vital part of Chinese life, and these tales are still the subject of numerous retellings in many forms. Books, opera, film, painting, festivals, as figures of speech, the myths of ancinet china live on the lives of ordinary Chinese people everywhere.
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  • Assurini Shamans at the Indigenous National Party.
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  • Assurini xama smoking in his ritual before the opening of the Indigenous Festival.
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  • Karaja girls
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  • Bororo People during the Indigenous Festival.
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  • Xerente woman
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  • Kayapo tattoo made with Genipapo ink.
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  • There are 22 familes living at Itacoatiara Mirim, a Baniwa Community around São Gabriel da Cachoeira town. To recover their traditions after leaving the original tribe, they built this "Maloca", also known as House of Knowledge. <br />
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"House of Knowledge is an area of transmission and learning of the traditional culture for those who do not know or forgot. It's to talk, tell stories of past, reliving the custom to eat together. A place to dance, make instruments, showing the young our culture"; explained Mestre Luiz Laureano, community leader. "The House of Knowledge is also to receive relatives who come from the original tribe to share with us the stories of our family who were there. Is a school that will pass knowledge."<br />
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São Gabriel da Cachoeira town, Amazonas, Brazil.
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  • A Tanzanian tribal sorcerer and his assistant, playing a traditional dance with an African Rock Python around the Moi International Sports Complex, during the VII World Social Forum.<br />
Dancers and drummers were dancing and playing whistles.<br />
Nairobi city, Kenya, Africa.
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  • Old traditional house, near Yangshuo twon.
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  • Bororo people cannot live in homologated land. Although to have its demarcated territory, the Bororo of the land Jarudori (Mato Grosso state) is obliged to live spread in other lands of its people, because its traditional area is invaded by squatters. Invasions, violence and epidemics - of tuberculosis and measles - had contributed for exit of many of the Bororo families who lived there.
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  • Young women dressed with traditional colors for celebration, crossing through the gray walls of Cha Tang Village, at Guangzhou periphery.
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  • Artist performing a traditional lion dance at Wong Fei Hung Museum.<br />
The Wong Fei Hung Lion Dance team presentation includes stilts over 10-12 feet in the air, with the lion jumping from stilt to stilt. Foshan is known as the birthplace of lion dancing.
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  • In Sergipe State, one of the most beautiful regions of the Brazilian coast, 90 percent of the mangaba is found in areas of native forest, where the traditional populations gather the fruit as a means of survival.
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  • Paixão  is an ancient of the Xavante ethnic group, and was showing a traditional play they use to do with kids on the tribe, with a  story about their myths, where he was painted and moving as a jaguar. <br />
The jaguar gave the original fire to the Xavante People.<br />
Indigenous National Festival at Bertioga city, 2007.
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  • Nevertheless, these traditional communities are threatened by large landowners who want to prohibit collection of the fruit, which could lead to hunger and poverty for nearly three thousand families who depend on gathering mangaba to survive.
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  • Despite being the local host of this Indigenous Festival, the Guarani people are usually very shy, and just a few of them went to the Festival. Around Bertioga town there are communities in  Guarani's lands. They survive between the transition of being indigenous with access to all the city's culture and consume, but being poor and denied by the local community.<br />
But this time they were more than the last two years; a larger group reflecting being secure and proud by their tradition.
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  • A Bará Indigenous man living at São Gabriel da Cachoeira, uses the Baniwa Maloca (House of Knowledge) to express his own traditions and share with the community. With a peculiar humor, he was listed as 'dangerous indigenous man' by the Baniwa's leader because he exhibits a mustache (not usual for the indigenous in the area).<br />
Bará People are very rare, an estimative about their group in Brazil tells about only 39 people (by 2009). His original tribe is near the frontier with Colômbia, around Papuri river.
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  • Rescuing their ancestor's traditions at the House of Knowledge, the indigenous people group living at Itacoatiara Mirim community, nearby São Gabriel da Cachoeira town, face the difficulties of transitions and the shock of the economic development impact in the extreme northeast of Amazonas state. They seek how to preserve identities, cultural values, while an avalanche of new economic needs are born every day.
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  • As a strong tradition passed on from generation to generation: "My children gather mangaba, my grandchildren. We teach them when they are young. I began, I taught my daughters and now they teach their daughters".
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