Mbaya
The Mbaya are Indians belonging to a South American tribe, and whose current descendants are the Caduveo Brésil.
The report/ratio with the body
Mbaya were studied by the Ethnologue French Claude Lévi-Strauss in Tristes Tropics . These Indians had a report/ratio particular to their body. Indeed, as Lévi-Strauss notices it, the noble ones spoke in praise of their row by body paintings with the stencil key set or tatoutages, which were the equivalent of a blazon. They depilated the face completely, including the eyebrows . The body made it possible to objectify the social hierarchy existing within the group. These paintings thus have a sociological function. The company is divided by this sociological structure. Like Lévi-Strauss writes it, it is enough to consider the plan of a village Bororo (...) to realize that it is organized the made-to-order of a drawing caduveo .
The women, as for them painted the face even their entire body. Levi-Strauss had noticed that into one decade these paintings had not changed, contrary to the various painted objects. It thus saw there the proof of the importance of these paintings in the indigenous culture. Indeed, these paintings made it possible Mbaya to be distinguished from the state of nature and the rough one. That which decorated its body by painting it passed from nature to the culture and became thus a civilized man.
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