The Peruvian Jivaroans of the Marañón gorge and the Santiago, Cenepa and Nieva — the Awajún, the second-most numerous Amazonian people of Peru, with the smaller Wampis — as unyielding as their Ecuadorian cousins.
Drove out missionaries and rubber tappers; in 2009 their stand at Bagua against Amazon land decrees left dozens dead, and in 2015 they declared an Autonomous Territorial Government of the Wampis Nation.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Awajún & Wampis — the shape you scrub through changes in 1549 · 1600.
Closely related Jivaroan neighbours; Descola's ethnography illuminates the same warrior-and-dream culture.
An accessible survey of the pre- and post-contact Americas that conveys the pre-conquest complexity and colonial devastation of Amazonian and Brazilian indigenous peoples.