Footnotes

1. https://www.periodistadigital.com/religion/america/2018/12/20/corrado-dalmonego-los-indigenas-pueden-ayudar-a-la-iglesia-a-limpiarse-de-estructuras-obsoletas.shtml.

2. Dévora Margarita Marchén, Impacto socio-educativo de la misión salesiana entre los Yanomami del Alto Orinoco, https://www.monografias.com/trabajos75/impacto-socioeducativo-mision-salesiana-yanomami/impacto-socioeducativo-mision-salesiana-yanomami2.shtml.

3. The German Erwin Frank has been studying the indigenous populations of America for 30 years. A professor at the Federal University of Roraima with a Ph.D. in anthropology, he has been researching the Amazonian Indians, and especially the Yanomami, for ten years. In an interview with Folha de S.Paulo, he said yesterday that infanticide is a tradition deeply rooted in the Yanomami culture. “This expresses the woman’s autonomy in deciding for the life or death of the child and functions as a form of selection for malformations and for the sex of the children,” he clarified. https://www.atini.org.br/infanticdio-nos-yanomami/.

4. Débora Margarita Marchán, op. cit.

5. Judith de Jorge, “La guerra de los Yanomami: lucha conmigo y me caso con tu hermana,” El País, Oct. 28, 2014, https://www.abc.es/ciencia/20141028/abci-guerra-yanomami-lucha-conmigo-201410281215.html.

6. Jesús María Aparicio Gervás and Charles David Tilley Bilbao, Endocannibalism in the funeral rituals of Yanomamo´s people, at http://www5.uva.es/trim/TRIM/TRIM8_files/TRIM8_4.pdf.

7. Joanna Overing, “Images of Cannibalism, Death, and Domination in a ‘Non-Violent’ Society,” Journal de la société des américanistes, Vol. 72, 1986, p. 151, in https://www.persee.fr/doc/jsa_0037-9174_1986_num_72_1_1001.

8. Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) was a philosopher from Geneva. Among his fallacies was the idea that man was born into an ideal state of nature in which he operated according to his instincts. Rousseau’s term for this proverbial character was the “noble savage.” Over time, Rousseau hypothesized, those instincts were corrupted by contact with society and religion.

9. David Kopenawa is known as the “Jungle’s Dalai Lama” and acts as the international spokesman for the Yanomami. In his highly publicized travels through Western capitals, he says he is advised by “xapiri” (spirits of the Amazon jungle).

10. https://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/es/bollettino/pubblico/2018/06/08/bal.html.

11. “Nuevos caminos para la Iglesia y para una ecología integral. Documento preparatorio del Sínodo de los Obispos para la Asamblea Especial sobre la Región Panamazónica”, n° 13, http://press.vatican.va/content/salastampa/es/bollettino/pubblico/2018/06/08/panam.html.

12. Ibid, No. 6.

13. Ibid, No. 13.