ZED - Living Cultures Collection (2012) Part 6 Red Skin (Brazil)
Living Cultures Collection
Discover 13 of the most magnificent oral traditions in the world, proclaimed a Masterpiece of Human Heritage by UNESCO Royal Ballet in Cambodia, Kabuki Theater in Japan, Woodcraft in Madagascar, Baaka songs in Central Africa …
Part 6 Red Skin (Brazil)
Fleeing from white people – their diseases, massacres, and forest clearance – the Wajapi have tried to preserve their identity and their way of life. For them, living deep in the northern Amazon forest, painting one's skin red is a way of maintaining a link with a very ancient civilization.
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