Deep in the Guiana highlands straddling the Brazil–Venezuela border, the Yanomami remained beyond colonial reach for centuries in great communal shabono houses.
Contacted only in the 20th century and devastated by gold-rush miners and disease; today ~35,000 hold the largest forested indigenous territory on earth, demarcated 1991–92.
The atlas holds 4 border frames for Yanomami & Upper-Orinoco Peoples — the shape you scrub through changes in 1000 · 1654 · 1900 · 1991.
Chagnon's memoir of his decades of fieldwork among the Yanomamo of the upper Orinoco, revisiting the material of his classic ethnography.
A first-person Yanomami account by shaman Davi Kopenawa of his people and the gold-rush devastation.