Word: urubus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other side of the scale, Authors MacAndrew and Edgerton cite the Urubu Indians of Brazil. When sober, the Urubus are ferocious headhunters; when drunk, they dance and sing with their enemies. The myth of alcoholic "disinhibition," as the book awkwardly describes it, can no more account for this reversal than for the inebriated conduct of the Aritama of northern Colombia. A morose and self-conscious tribe, the Aritama only grow more so on rum, their favorite potable. "All conversation stops," report the authors, "and gloominess sets...
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