Canela

Thus, the Canela of South America have four dual schemes: one to regulate marriage and three to organize people into ceremonial groups. Each of these schemes bisects the tribe in a different way, because each determines membership in a different way—for instance, by lineage, by the name…

In 1963 the Canela, a Ge tribe of Maranhão state, had a messianic movement announcing that, when the new day came, the civilized people would be obliged to live in the forest or in the savanna, hunting with bow and arrow, while the Indians would become rich farmers.…