Ethnohistory 2000 47(3-4):635-667; DOI:10.1215/00141801-47-3-4-635
Duke University Press
Kuwé Duwákalumi: The Arawak Sacred Routes of Migration, Trade, and Resistance
Silvia M. Vidal
Instituto Venezolano de Investigaciones Científicas
Abstract.
Kuwé or Kúwai is a powerful cultural hero among the Arawak of
the Northwest Amazon. This article analyzes Kuwé teachings and sacred
routes as political, religious, migratory, and trade strategies of resistance.
These routes were used by the Warekena and the Baré Indians to resist
the colonial and postcolonial encroachment on their ancestral territories
during the eighteenth century.

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