LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The Brazilian government has strongly criticized a call by two U.S. anthropologists to force contact with South America's most isolated tribes to ensure their ...

In remote parts of the world, cooking isn’t just about food—it’s a way of life. Tribes have mastered unique techniques that ...

An expert who worked to protect uncontacted Amazonian tribes has been shot and killed with an arrow in Brazil, according to the government's Indigenous affairs agency, Fundação Nacional do Índio ...

According to research, nearly 70% of the tribes in the old Amazon rainforest practised multiple paternity, where all a woman's sexual partners served as the biological fathers of her offspring.

Last year, I had the opportunity to meet leaders from two indigenous Amazonian tribes, including the dynamic Shuar leader Domingo Ankuash. The pair had come to draw attention to the horrific impact of ...