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Member of the Enawene Nawe tribe Yaokwa also Yakkwa ritual ritual to preserve the social and cosmological order celebrated in the dry season by the Enawene Nawe tribe inhabiting one village on the Juruena River in the southern Amazon in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso.

The tribe of Enawene Nawe distinguishes two seasons: the dry Iokayti with the Yaokwa rite in honor of the spirits of Yakairiti (rulers of all natural resources, masters of death and misfortune) and the rainy Onekiniwa with the worship of the spirits of Salumà and Kateoko.

Yaokwa ritual activities are part of the daily activities of members of the tribal community for seven months of dry season. Individual clans alternately perform certain tasks, assigned by gender, age and knowledge. While one man sets out for two months of fishing, the others are leaving with the women in the village to prepare for the return of the fishermen. The group staying in the village gives ritual dances and songs, prepares salt for sacrifices, keeps the village clean and the path to come is to come ghosts and prepare stacks of wood for bonfires and cassava. At this time, fishermen build dams with which they fish, which they then smoked and sent to the village.

The Yaokwa rite is the foundation of the culture and identity of Enawene Nawe. Its fulfillment is closely related to the maintenance of specialization, division of labor and preservation of social and cosmological order. The continuity of the rite depends on the state of the ecosystem in which the tribe lives. In 2009, for the first time, clans could not complete the ritual - men could not catch enough fish, though five wooden dams were built. The National Foundation for the Indigenous Peoples (FUNAI) bought fish and delivered it to the village of Enawene Nawe.

In 2011 Yaokwa rite was included in the list of intangible heritage requiring urgent protection of UNESCO.

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