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Latin American Fotografia: Bear Guerra Photographs Ecuador's Cofan Community

By David Schonauer   Wednesday March 29, 2017


The Cofán people of Ecuador don’t paint their bodies.

They don’t wear loincloths, lounge in hammocks, or live in homes roofed with palm fronds. In fact, notes American anthropologist Michael Cepek in Pacific Standard  magazine, they don’t fit the Western stereotypes of how native Amazonians are supposed to look …


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