Jivaroan kin of the Shuar settled east in the moriche-palm swamps of the Pastaza and Huasaga, straddling the Ecuador–Peru line and bound by dream-visions sought at dawn over wayus tea.
Stayed beyond mission reach until the 20th century; now ~12,000 across the border, fighting oil and pipeline incursions on the Pastaza and Corrientes through their federations.
Descola lived among the Achuar; the definitive ethnography of their Jivaroan world of dreams, warfare and forest.
Sweeping history of the Amazon and its peoples for broad context.