I've just finished reading Dan Everett's account of his life among the Pirahã people of the upper Amazon, called, Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and Language in the Amazon Jungle. Everett has ...

In a report published this week in the journal Science, researchers describe a group of indigenous peoples in Brazil called the Pirahã tribe. The scientists found that the Pirahã seem to have fewer ...

According to data from Global Forest Watch, the Pirahã Indigenous Territory in Brazil lost 7,000 hectares of tree cover from 2002-24. A large spike occurred in 2024, when the territory lost 3,200 ...

Tucked into Brazil’s Amazon forest, along the Maici River where recently contacted Pirahã people live, journalists observed a dramatic uptick in forest loss. According to data from Global Forest Watch ...