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The Xingu Indian Kuarap Festival Celebrates Death with Life

Among the surviving Xingu Native American Amazon tribes, a days-long ceremony commemorates death, life and youth
Posted on November 1, 2012 by Antal Polony (Blog Writer, SevenPonds)

While we revelers in the U.S. fan out to solicit candy and purchase alcoholic beverages, celebrating a holiday whose commercialism has almost become a parody of itself, perhaps we would do well to look a little further south, to the … Continue reading →

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