Tereno

Others, like the Bororo, Tereno, and Bacairi, constitute minorities who have adopted some aspects of Christianity and Brazilian culture but who also have retained separate tribal identities and live on the fringe of the region. A significant element in the population of the Alto Paraná region of Brazil consists…

The Terena of the southern Mato Grosso divide themselves into endogamous groups: the man and wife must come from the same group, called by ethnologists a moiety. Marriage between cross cousins, that is, between children of siblings of different sex, is considered ideal in many tribes;…