Word: gurupi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Builders from All Over. Seeing hope in these improvements, settlers are coming in, turning wasteland into farms and farms into communities. The town of Gurupi, nonexistent 18 months ago, has jus finished harvesting a 2½ million-lb. rice crop. Directed by U.S. geologists, seismograph crews are hacking their way through the brush to set off exploration blasts and measure the echoes for the government oil monopoly, Petrobras; drilling crews are battling their way through vines and tangled trees to bore into promising substratum. Results so far: traces...
...hantan (hard) or membek (soft) -that is the question every Hamlet of Brazil's Urubu Indians must try to answer. Hantan men spend their lives out hunting in the jungle along the Gurupi River; membek fellows stay at home with the girls, which makes them even membeker. The girls like their lovers to be tough, but only because it's more fun tempting them to become membek. And anyone who succumbs to such temptation is liable to be turned into a toad after death. It's all a big problem, the Urubus assured Anthropologist Francis Huxley...
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