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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

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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