Kumenê Explained

Kumenê
Native Name:Ukumene
Pushpin Map:Amapá#Brazil
Pushpin Mapsize:310
Pushpin Map Caption:Location in Brazil
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Name: Brazil
Subdivision Type1:Region
Subdivision Name1:North
Subdivision Type2:State
Subdivision Name2:Amapá
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3:Oiapoque
Population As Of:2016
Population Footnotes:[1]
Population Total:1,056
Population Density Km2:auto
Coordinates:3.4881°N -51.4846°W
Utc Offset:-3

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] Kumenê is located on the Urucaua River[5] in the Uaçá Indigenous Territory.[6]

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

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 high mountain, is located near the village.[11]

Notes and References

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

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