The indigenous Shuar, native to Ecuador and Peru, have been portrayed as headhunting savages. This tribe no longer performs the ritual of shrinking heads, a practice largely misunderstood. Although ...

Ecuador’s National System of Protected Areas now includes the 5,497-hectare (13,583-acre) ancestral Tiwi Nunka Forest in the country’s south. The Shuar Indigenous community of El Kiim, with the help ...

Shuar group in the park of Logroño, Ecuador. Wikimedia Commons/Jlh249. Some rights reserved. According to the Ecuadorian philosopher Bolívar Echeverría, modern ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A temporary replacement for Wachapá was put in place after he was detained on December 21 during a raid on his organization’s headquarters. Wachapá ...

MY FOUR YEARS With the Head Hunters of the Amazon," announces the cover of a circa-1940 brochure detailing a lecture that a man named Gustav Struve would give, for a fee, at your local Shriners club ...

Morona-Santiago, Ecuador – The death of a police officer during a standoff between military and indigenous Shuar people in a takeover attempt of a mining camp in Ecuador’s southern Amazon on December ...

Elevated immune function during childhood results in as much as 49 percent growth reduction in Ecuador's indigenous Shuar population, researchers report. Elevated immune function during childhood ...

Cultural leaders of an indigenous Ecuadorian community have called for the repatriation of a museum's collection of shrunken heads. The collection of human remains, also known as tsantsas, at the Pitt ...

Ecuadorian Amazon (Photo by Dallas Krentzel, CC by 2.0) Ecuadorian Amazon (Photo by Dallas Krentzel, CC by 2.0) More than 100 organisations have signed a letter repudiating mining companies for ...

When the pungent smell of rotting food sends a person running, that disgusted feeling is an evolved response that helps avoid exposure to pathogens, say anthropologists. In a project that blended ...