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  • Marriage for the Waorani was a relatively simple affair, an arrangement between parents formalized at a public celebration.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Marriage for the Waorani was a relatively simple affair, an arrangement between parents formalized at a public celebration.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Until missionaries moved in in 1958, the Waorani tribe of the Ecuadoran Amazon had the highest rates of homicide known to science: 39 percent of women and 54 percent of men were killed by other Waorani, often in blood feuds that lasted generations.

    Why Do We Rape, Kill and Sleep Around? JLK 2009

  • Until missionaries moved in in 1958, the Waorani tribe of the Ecuadoran Amazon had the highest rates of homicide known to science: 39 percent of women and 54 percent of men were killed by other Waorani, often in blood feuds that lasted generations.

    Archive 2009-07-01 JLK 2009

  • Or, one of the most fascinating tribes I ever lived with, the Waorani of northeastern Ecuador, an astonishing people first contacted peacefully in 1958.

    Wade Davis on endangered cultures 2003

  • Or, one of the most fascinating tribes I ever lived with, the Waorani of northeastern Ecuador, an astonishing people first contacted peacefully in 1958.

    Wade Davis on endangered cultures 2003

  • Or, one of the most fascinating tribes I ever lived with, the Waorani of northeastern Ecuador, an astonishing people first contacted peacefully in 1958.

    Wade Davis on endangered cultures 2003

  • After breakfast we wandered over to the small church the Waorani had built by the airport.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • With Elliot out of the way, Saint installed herself and Dayuma as power brokers, mediating not only the delivery of new religious ideas to the Waorani but, more important, the flow of goods from the outside.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

  • Having lost her husband to the Waorani and raised her daughter among them, Betty Elliot left Tiwaeno in 1961.

    One River Wade Davis 1996

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