Question

what did the munduruku people of the brazilian amazon who lived in village cultivate

Answer 1

The Munduruku (Mundurucu or Wuy Jugu) are a tribe of South Americans, one of the most powerful tribes on the Amazon. They had an estimated population in 2009 of 10,896. In 1788, they completely defeated their ancient enemies the Muras. After 1803 they lived at peace with the Brazilians.


One of the most interesting things about the Mundurucu is their residence pattern. Rather than a pattern based on conjugal or affinal bonds, in the Munduruku villages, all males over the age of thirteen live in one household, and all of the females live with all of the males under thirteen in another.

They are also notable for their linguistic separation of "us" (their tribe) from "them" (everyone else), the pariwat. Whereas they refer to themselves as the wuujuyu, or "our people", everyone else is spoken of as the equivalent of "prey".

Unlike the Piraha, the Mundurucu have a numeracy system, albeit limited (similar to that found in some Aboriginal Australian cultures). Pierre Pica was instrumental (in a work done in collaboration with Stanislas Dehaene and Elizabeth Spelke) in revealing the psychophysics and linguistic properties of the Munduruku counting system to the Western world.

The Mundurucu only have number words up to five, although each word is not as definite in meaning as number words in English. Furthermore, the Mundurucu use the logarithmic scale to approximate number "distance", which is a strategy all humans have been shown to use before more extensive exposure in numbers.

Answer 2

Munduruku are an indigenous people of Brazil, numbering 13,755 according to an estimate of 2014. Their cultivation activity was collection of latex from wild rubber trees, which they traded for their requirements.