Mbyá Guarani

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The Mbyá Guarani are an Indigenous Guarani-speaking people of the Southern Cone, known for their semi-nomadic forest-based lifestyle, rich oral traditions, and strong spiritual relationship with the land across regions of Paraguay, Brazil, and Argentina.

All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
Mbyá Guarani canonical 2
Mbyá Guaraní 2
Guarani 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (48)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Guarani people
Indigenous people
affectedBy deforestation
land dispossession
cosmology Ñanderu-centered worldview
country Argentina
Brazil
Paraguay
culturalPractice dance
ritual chanting
sacred music
shamanic healing
culturalTrait rich oral tradition
strong spiritual relationship with the land
ethnicGroupOf Southern Cone
housingType communal houses
language Mbyá Guarani language
linked to: Mbyá Guarani
languageFamily Tupian languages
Tupi–Guarani languages
linked to: Tupi–Guaraní
peopleNameInPortuguese Guarani Mbya
linked to: Mbyá Guarani
peopleNameInSpanish Mbyá guaraní
linked to: Mbyá Guarani
populationDistribution indigenous communities in eastern Paraguay
indigenous communities in northeastern Argentina
indigenous territories in southern Brazil
recognizedAs Indigenous people in Argentina
Indigenous people in Brazil
Indigenous people in Paraguay
region Argentina
Brazil
Paraguay
religion Guarani spirituality
rightsIssue cultural preservation
land demarcation
sacredSpace opy (ritual house)
selfDesignation Mbya
linked to: Mbyá

Mbyá
socialOrganization extended family groups
village communities
spiritualLeader opygua
subgroupOf Guarani
linked to: Guaraní
traditionalBelief search for the Land Without Evil
traditionalEconomy fishing
gathering
hunting
shifting cultivation
traditionalHabitat Atlantic Forest
subtropical forest
traditionalLifestyle semi-nomadic

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (10)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Guarani peoples subgroup Mbyá Guarani
Guarani peoples subgroup Kaiowá Guarani
linked to: Mbyá Guarani
Tupi–Guaraní hasLanguage Mbyá Guaraní
linked to: Mbyá Guarani
Ava Guaraní isDistinctFrom Mbyá Guaraní
linked to: Mbyá Guarani
Mbyá Guarani language Mbyá Guarani language
linked to: Mbyá Guarani
Mbyá Guarani peopleNameInSpanish Mbyá guaraní
linked to: Mbyá Guarani
Mbyá Guarani peopleNameInPortuguese Guarani Mbya
linked to: Mbyá Guarani
Chiriguano (Ava Guarani) relatedGroup Mbya Guarani
linked to: Mbyá Guarani
Ñandeva Guarani relatedEthnicGroup Mbyá Guarani
Tupiniquim relatedEthnicGroup Guarani
linked to: Mbyá Guarani