Index

South America

IES: Brazil

SCCS:

(-,-,2,2,4,4;2,2;B)

TUPINAMBÁ (Central Brazil)

 

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“ […] Tupinamba girls, before their breasts are full and the menses appear, are forbidden intercourse” (Ford, 1945 [1964:p20]). “[…] older Tupinamba women in Brazil who did not have the favor of older men might constantly accompany young boys, to whom they gave presents and instruction in sexual matters” […] (Werner, cited by Frayser). After the first menstruation (called quioundu-ar) the hair on the initiand’s head is cut off with a fish tooth.When a girl’s hair had grown again to shoulder length, she was considered marriageable (Kakumasu, nd)[1].

 

 

 


 

 

 

Janssen, D. F., Growing Up Sexually. VolumeI. World Reference Atlas. 0.2 ed. 2004. Berlin: Magnus Hirschfeld Archive for Sexology

Last revised: Sept 2004

 



[1]Kakumasu, K. (nd) Urubu-Kaapor Girls’ Puberty Rites. Paper [http://www.sil.org/americas/brasil/PUBLCNS/ANTHRO/ukpubert.pdf, as accessed Sept 18, 2004]