The 'people from below' of the blackwater Chambira, speakers of an unrelated language with rare object-verb-subject grammar, weavers of golden chambira-palm hammocks.
Kept apart by the remoteness of their flooded forest and by choice; debt-bondage to patrons scarred them, yet ~3,000 still speak Urarina vigorously along the Chambira and Urituyacu.
The atlas holds 2 border frames for Urarina — the shape you scrub through changes in 1650 · 1701.
Kinship and history in Peruvian Amazonia, the upper-Amazon world of patrons and debt that scarred the Urarina (broad regional, not Urarina-specific).
Broad narrative history of the Amazon and its peoples.