Hidden deep within the Amazon rainforest, the Yanomami continue to preserve spiritual traditions that have remained untouched ...

In Tibet, some people practice a ritual called "sky burial." After a person dies, their body is placed on a mountaintop and left for vultures to eat. The dead are left on a mountaintop for vultures to ...

This article was written by Emily Costa and Kátia Brasil for the Amazônia Real. It is republished by Global Voices under a partnership agreement. On July 1, a mother of Yanomami ethnicity, and member ...

Director Luiz Bolognesi resists patronizing cultural fetishry in his artful documentary portrait of the Amazonian Yanomami community, giving them a narrative voice of their own. “Only in our forest ...

“I’m in mourning because my people [are] dying … children are dying for nothing.” These are the words of Davi Kopenawa, author of “The Falling Sky” and a prominent leader of the Yanomami Indigenous ...