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- proper noun The only nonextinct member of the Bororoan language family, spoken in the Central
Mato Grosso region ofBrazil .
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Examples
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For the Bororo an Indian people from Brazil… a man is not an individual but a… part of a sociological universe: the village which has existed from the beginning of time, side by side with the physical universe, which is itself composed of animate beings—celestial bodies and meteorological phenomena.4
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For the Bororo an Indian people from Brazil… a man is not an individual but a… part of a sociological universe: the village which has existed from the beginning of time, side by side with the physical universe, which is itself composed of animate beings—celestial bodies and meteorological phenomena.4
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For the Bororo an Indian people from Brazil… a man is not an individual but a… part of a sociological universe: the village which has existed from the beginning of time, side by side with the physical universe, which is itself composed of animate beings—celestial bodies and meteorological phenomena.4
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For the Bororo an Indian people from Brazil… a man is not an individual but a… part of a sociological universe: the village which has existed from the beginning of time, side by side with the physical universe, which is itself composed of animate beings—celestial bodies and meteorological phenomena.4
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The people who live on the north are called Baroro, and their country Bororo.
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And some of his analyses, such as his analysis of the Bororo (Tristes Tropiques, pp. 214-231) would seem to constitute evidence in support of this claim.
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Tristes Tropiques offers a record of his encounters with these tribes — the nomadic, missionary - murdering Nambikwara, the Tupi-Kawahib whom no white man had ever seen before, the materially splendid Bororo, the ceremonious Caduveo who produce huge amounts of abstract painting and sculpture.
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A whole Bororo village has been thrown into a panic and nearly deserted because somebody had dreamed that he saw enemies stealthily approaching it.
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The Bororo are firmly persuaded that were any man to touch unconsecrated maize or meat, before the ceremony had been completed, he and his whole tribe would perish.
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A whole Bororo village has been thrown into a panic and nearly deserted because somebody had dreamed that he saw enemies stealthily approaching it.
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