Kumenê

Kumenê (also Ukumene^[2]) is a Palikur Amerindian village in the Brazilian municipality of Oiapoque, Amapá. It is the largest village of the tribe.^[3][4][5] Kumenê is located on the Urucaua River^[5] in the Uaçá Indigenous Territory.^[6]

Kumenê Ukumene
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Coordinates: 3.4881°N 51.4846°W / 3.4881; -51.4846
Country	Brazil
Region	North
State	Amapá
Municipality	Oiapoque
Population  (2016)[1]
• Total	1,056
Time zone	UTC-3

Overview

The area around the Urucaua River is the ancestral territory of the Palikur.^[7] In 1965, two linguists of the Summer Institute of Linguistics arrived in Kumenê to learn the language. They stayed for about 11 years, and founded the first school.^[3]

[n the 1980s, pastors from the Assembly of God of Macapá arrived and started to convert the population.^[8] They built a church and banned shamanism, traditional dances, nudism, and caxixi, a local alcoholic beverage. Nowadays, the village is Pentecostal.^[8]

Monte Carupina

The village contains the health centre for the region.^[8] The houses in the village are built on stilts.^[9] In 2017, there was a malaria outbreak in the region.^[10]

Kumenê can only be reached by boat, and is located about seven hours from Oiapoque.^[8] Monte Carupina, a 325 metres (1,066 ft) high mountain, is located near the village.^[11]

References

1. "Caracterização do DSEI Amapá e Norte do Pará, conforme Edital de Chamada Pública n. 2/2017" (PDF). Ministry of Health (Brazil) (in Portuguese). Retrieved 28 March 2021.
2. Pierre Grenand and Marie-Françoise Prévost (1994). "Les plantes colorantes utilisées en Guyane française". Journal d'agriculture traditionnelle et de botanique appliquée (in French). 36–1: 146.
3. "Palikur". Socio Ambiental. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
4. Stan Anonby (2007). "A report on the creoles of Amapá". Journal of Language Survey Reports. 20: 10.
5. "Expressão feminina na Aldeia Kumenê". Padre Nello (in Portuguese). Retrieved 27 March 2021.
6. "Mulheres indígenas de Oiapoque realizam VII Assembleia da AMIM e intercâmbio sobre plantas medicinais". Instituo Iepé (in Portuguese). Retrieved 27 March 2021.
7. Martijn van den Bel (2009). "The Palikur Potters: an ethnoarchaeological case study on the Palikur pottery tradition in French-Guiana and Amapá, Brazil" (PDF). Cayenne: Institute National de Recherches Archéologiques. p. 41.
8. "Médico do Programa Mais Médicos resgata saber tradicional de tribo indígena no Oiapoque, Amapá". Pan American Health Organization (in Portuguese). Retrieved 27 March 2021.
9. Patricia Leandro-Reguillo, Richard Thomson-Luque and Wuelton Marcelo Monteiro (2014). THE AMAZONIAN INDIGENOUS SETTLEMENTS: TIPOLOGIES ANALYSIS FOR MALARIA ELIMINATION. ASTMH annual meeting 2014 The American Society Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. p. Abstract.
10. Emilie Mosner (2020). "Resurgence risk for malaria, and the characterization of a recent outbreak in an Amazonian border area between French Guiana and Brazil". BMC Infectious Diseases. 20. doi:10.1186/s12879-020-05086-4. PMC 7249302.
11. "Monte Carupina". Peakery. Retrieved 27 March 2021.