History

Bora history

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Story

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    AI note: expansion-2026-08: overview compiled with AI assistance as original prose from cited public sources (https://bdpi.cultura.gob.pe/pueblos/bora, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_people). Population figure: 1151 (2017, INEI 2017 census self-identification, via BDPI / Ministerio de Cultura). Awaiting contributor and community review.

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    AI note: sections-wave3-2026-08: compiled with AI assistance as original prose from cited public sources (https://bdpi.cultura.gob.pe/pueblos/bora, https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/2983?lang=en, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170354, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_people, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brus_Rubio, https://amazonecology.org/blogs/news/chicha-de-pijuayo-festival-in-brillo-nuevo, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1663/0013-0001(2002)056%5B0027:MAMCHA%5D2.0.CO;2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide). Sensitivity: The pottery section is omitted entirely. No source consulted described Bora clay sources, forming, firing, vessel forms or current production, and writing one would have meant generalising from neighbouring peoples. The gap is left open for contributors rather than filled. Population figures are reported with their sources and not reconciled: 1,151 self-identified (2017 census), 748 speakers (Ministry of Education fieldwork), about 781 in Bora communities (Ministry of Culture), about 2,000 across three countries in reference works; the fact that the community figure is lower than the self-identification figure is flagged rather than smoothed over. Language classification is presented as disputed, with Aschmann's 1993 Bora-Witoto proposal and the 2016 rejection by Echeverri and Seifart both named. Miranha and Miranya are recorded as rubber-era exonyms to avoid. The thirty-two kilometre manguare range cited by the Ministry of Culture is flagged as a claimed maximum. Staged tourist performance is distinguished from community practice in the today and architecture sections, including the published finding that tourism at Pucaurquillo shaped a public performance of Bora identity, and the note that tourist-reception malocas near Iquitos are not evidence of communal residence. Rubber-boom history, including the Peruvian Amazon Company and forced displacement, is given as documented history without sensationalism. The manguare is described as a communication and public ceremonial instrument including how the drummed-speech system works, following published peer-reviewed research; no message-by-message code table is reproduced, because none was consulted. The medicine section covers coca and tobacco fully as cultural and cosmological instruments but gives no preparation methods, plant parts, doses or plant-plus-method combinations. All prose is original; no chants, ceremonial speech or narrative translations are reproduced. Ritual role terms recorded in the literature for neighbouring Uitoto dance organisation were deliberately not attributed to the Bora. Awaiting contributor and community review.

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Land and territory

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    AI note: sections-wave3-2026-08: compiled with AI assistance as original prose from cited public sources (https://bdpi.cultura.gob.pe/pueblos/bora, https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/2983?lang=en, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170354, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_people, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brus_Rubio, https://amazonecology.org/blogs/news/chicha-de-pijuayo-festival-in-brillo-nuevo, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1663/0013-0001(2002)056%5B0027:MAMCHA%5D2.0.CO;2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide). Sensitivity: The pottery section is omitted entirely. No source consulted described Bora clay sources, forming, firing, vessel forms or current production, and writing one would have meant generalising from neighbouring peoples. The gap is left open for contributors rather than filled. Population figures are reported with their sources and not reconciled: 1,151 self-identified (2017 census), 748 speakers (Ministry of Education fieldwork), about 781 in Bora communities (Ministry of Culture), about 2,000 across three countries in reference works; the fact that the community figure is lower than the self-identification figure is flagged rather than smoothed over. Language classification is presented as disputed, with Aschmann's 1993 Bora-Witoto proposal and the 2016 rejection by Echeverri and Seifart both named. Miranha and Miranya are recorded as rubber-era exonyms to avoid. The thirty-two kilometre manguare range cited by the Ministry of Culture is flagged as a claimed maximum. Staged tourist performance is distinguished from community practice in the today and architecture sections, including the published finding that tourism at Pucaurquillo shaped a public performance of Bora identity, and the note that tourist-reception malocas near Iquitos are not evidence of communal residence. Rubber-boom history, including the Peruvian Amazon Company and forced displacement, is given as documented history without sensationalism. The manguare is described as a communication and public ceremonial instrument including how the drummed-speech system works, following published peer-reviewed research; no message-by-message code table is reproduced, because none was consulted. The medicine section covers coca and tobacco fully as cultural and cosmological instruments but gives no preparation methods, plant parts, doses or plant-plus-method combinations. All prose is original; no chants, ceremonial speech or narrative translations are reproduced. Ritual role terms recorded in the literature for neighbouring Uitoto dance organisation were deliberately not attributed to the Bora. Awaiting contributor and community review.

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Language

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    AI note: sections-wave3-2026-08: compiled with AI assistance as original prose from cited public sources (https://bdpi.cultura.gob.pe/pueblos/bora, https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/2983?lang=en, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170354, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_people, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brus_Rubio, https://amazonecology.org/blogs/news/chicha-de-pijuayo-festival-in-brillo-nuevo, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1663/0013-0001(2002)056%5B0027:MAMCHA%5D2.0.CO;2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide). Sensitivity: The pottery section is omitted entirely. No source consulted described Bora clay sources, forming, firing, vessel forms or current production, and writing one would have meant generalising from neighbouring peoples. The gap is left open for contributors rather than filled. Population figures are reported with their sources and not reconciled: 1,151 self-identified (2017 census), 748 speakers (Ministry of Education fieldwork), about 781 in Bora communities (Ministry of Culture), about 2,000 across three countries in reference works; the fact that the community figure is lower than the self-identification figure is flagged rather than smoothed over. Language classification is presented as disputed, with Aschmann's 1993 Bora-Witoto proposal and the 2016 rejection by Echeverri and Seifart both named. Miranha and Miranya are recorded as rubber-era exonyms to avoid. The thirty-two kilometre manguare range cited by the Ministry of Culture is flagged as a claimed maximum. Staged tourist performance is distinguished from community practice in the today and architecture sections, including the published finding that tourism at Pucaurquillo shaped a public performance of Bora identity, and the note that tourist-reception malocas near Iquitos are not evidence of communal residence. Rubber-boom history, including the Peruvian Amazon Company and forced displacement, is given as documented history without sensationalism. The manguare is described as a communication and public ceremonial instrument including how the drummed-speech system works, following published peer-reviewed research; no message-by-message code table is reproduced, because none was consulted. The medicine section covers coca and tobacco fully as cultural and cosmological instruments but gives no preparation methods, plant parts, doses or plant-plus-method combinations. All prose is original; no chants, ceremonial speech or narrative translations are reproduced. Ritual role terms recorded in the literature for neighbouring Uitoto dance organisation were deliberately not attributed to the Bora. Awaiting contributor and community review.

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Daily life and food

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    AI note: sections-wave3-2026-08: compiled with AI assistance as original prose from cited public sources (https://bdpi.cultura.gob.pe/pueblos/bora, https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/2983?lang=en, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170354, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_people, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brus_Rubio, https://amazonecology.org/blogs/news/chicha-de-pijuayo-festival-in-brillo-nuevo, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1663/0013-0001(2002)056%5B0027:MAMCHA%5D2.0.CO;2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide). Sensitivity: The pottery section is omitted entirely. No source consulted described Bora clay sources, forming, firing, vessel forms or current production, and writing one would have meant generalising from neighbouring peoples. The gap is left open for contributors rather than filled. Population figures are reported with their sources and not reconciled: 1,151 self-identified (2017 census), 748 speakers (Ministry of Education fieldwork), about 781 in Bora communities (Ministry of Culture), about 2,000 across three countries in reference works; the fact that the community figure is lower than the self-identification figure is flagged rather than smoothed over. Language classification is presented as disputed, with Aschmann's 1993 Bora-Witoto proposal and the 2016 rejection by Echeverri and Seifart both named. Miranha and Miranya are recorded as rubber-era exonyms to avoid. The thirty-two kilometre manguare range cited by the Ministry of Culture is flagged as a claimed maximum. Staged tourist performance is distinguished from community practice in the today and architecture sections, including the published finding that tourism at Pucaurquillo shaped a public performance of Bora identity, and the note that tourist-reception malocas near Iquitos are not evidence of communal residence. Rubber-boom history, including the Peruvian Amazon Company and forced displacement, is given as documented history without sensationalism. The manguare is described as a communication and public ceremonial instrument including how the drummed-speech system works, following published peer-reviewed research; no message-by-message code table is reproduced, because none was consulted. The medicine section covers coca and tobacco fully as cultural and cosmological instruments but gives no preparation methods, plant parts, doses or plant-plus-method combinations. All prose is original; no chants, ceremonial speech or narrative translations are reproduced. Ritual role terms recorded in the literature for neighbouring Uitoto dance organisation were deliberately not attributed to the Bora. Awaiting contributor and community review.

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Arts

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    AI note: sections-wave3-2026-08: compiled with AI assistance as original prose from cited public sources (https://bdpi.cultura.gob.pe/pueblos/bora, https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/2983?lang=en, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170354, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_people, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brus_Rubio, https://amazonecology.org/blogs/news/chicha-de-pijuayo-festival-in-brillo-nuevo, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1663/0013-0001(2002)056%5B0027:MAMCHA%5D2.0.CO;2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide). Sensitivity: The pottery section is omitted entirely. No source consulted described Bora clay sources, forming, firing, vessel forms or current production, and writing one would have meant generalising from neighbouring peoples. The gap is left open for contributors rather than filled. Population figures are reported with their sources and not reconciled: 1,151 self-identified (2017 census), 748 speakers (Ministry of Education fieldwork), about 781 in Bora communities (Ministry of Culture), about 2,000 across three countries in reference works; the fact that the community figure is lower than the self-identification figure is flagged rather than smoothed over. Language classification is presented as disputed, with Aschmann's 1993 Bora-Witoto proposal and the 2016 rejection by Echeverri and Seifart both named. Miranha and Miranya are recorded as rubber-era exonyms to avoid. The thirty-two kilometre manguare range cited by the Ministry of Culture is flagged as a claimed maximum. Staged tourist performance is distinguished from community practice in the today and architecture sections, including the published finding that tourism at Pucaurquillo shaped a public performance of Bora identity, and the note that tourist-reception malocas near Iquitos are not evidence of communal residence. Rubber-boom history, including the Peruvian Amazon Company and forced displacement, is given as documented history without sensationalism. The manguare is described as a communication and public ceremonial instrument including how the drummed-speech system works, following published peer-reviewed research; no message-by-message code table is reproduced, because none was consulted. The medicine section covers coca and tobacco fully as cultural and cosmological instruments but gives no preparation methods, plant parts, doses or plant-plus-method combinations. All prose is original; no chants, ceremonial speech or narrative translations are reproduced. Ritual role terms recorded in the literature for neighbouring Uitoto dance organisation were deliberately not attributed to the Bora. Awaiting contributor and community review.

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Today

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    AI note: sections-wave3-2026-08: compiled with AI assistance as original prose from cited public sources (https://bdpi.cultura.gob.pe/pueblos/bora, https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/2983?lang=en, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170354, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_people, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brus_Rubio, https://amazonecology.org/blogs/news/chicha-de-pijuayo-festival-in-brillo-nuevo, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1663/0013-0001(2002)056%5B0027:MAMCHA%5D2.0.CO;2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide). Sensitivity: The pottery section is omitted entirely. No source consulted described Bora clay sources, forming, firing, vessel forms or current production, and writing one would have meant generalising from neighbouring peoples. The gap is left open for contributors rather than filled. Population figures are reported with their sources and not reconciled: 1,151 self-identified (2017 census), 748 speakers (Ministry of Education fieldwork), about 781 in Bora communities (Ministry of Culture), about 2,000 across three countries in reference works; the fact that the community figure is lower than the self-identification figure is flagged rather than smoothed over. Language classification is presented as disputed, with Aschmann's 1993 Bora-Witoto proposal and the 2016 rejection by Echeverri and Seifart both named. Miranha and Miranya are recorded as rubber-era exonyms to avoid. The thirty-two kilometre manguare range cited by the Ministry of Culture is flagged as a claimed maximum. Staged tourist performance is distinguished from community practice in the today and architecture sections, including the published finding that tourism at Pucaurquillo shaped a public performance of Bora identity, and the note that tourist-reception malocas near Iquitos are not evidence of communal residence. Rubber-boom history, including the Peruvian Amazon Company and forced displacement, is given as documented history without sensationalism. The manguare is described as a communication and public ceremonial instrument including how the drummed-speech system works, following published peer-reviewed research; no message-by-message code table is reproduced, because none was consulted. The medicine section covers coca and tobacco fully as cultural and cosmological instruments but gives no preparation methods, plant parts, doses or plant-plus-method combinations. All prose is original; no chants, ceremonial speech or narrative translations are reproduced. Ritual role terms recorded in the literature for neighbouring Uitoto dance organisation were deliberately not attributed to the Bora. Awaiting contributor and community review.

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Textiles

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    AI note: sections-wave3-2026-08: compiled with AI assistance as original prose from cited public sources (https://bdpi.cultura.gob.pe/pueblos/bora, https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/2983?lang=en, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170354, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_people, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brus_Rubio, https://amazonecology.org/blogs/news/chicha-de-pijuayo-festival-in-brillo-nuevo, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1663/0013-0001(2002)056%5B0027:MAMCHA%5D2.0.CO;2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide). Sensitivity: The pottery section is omitted entirely. No source consulted described Bora clay sources, forming, firing, vessel forms or current production, and writing one would have meant generalising from neighbouring peoples. The gap is left open for contributors rather than filled. Population figures are reported with their sources and not reconciled: 1,151 self-identified (2017 census), 748 speakers (Ministry of Education fieldwork), about 781 in Bora communities (Ministry of Culture), about 2,000 across three countries in reference works; the fact that the community figure is lower than the self-identification figure is flagged rather than smoothed over. Language classification is presented as disputed, with Aschmann's 1993 Bora-Witoto proposal and the 2016 rejection by Echeverri and Seifart both named. Miranha and Miranya are recorded as rubber-era exonyms to avoid. The thirty-two kilometre manguare range cited by the Ministry of Culture is flagged as a claimed maximum. Staged tourist performance is distinguished from community practice in the today and architecture sections, including the published finding that tourism at Pucaurquillo shaped a public performance of Bora identity, and the note that tourist-reception malocas near Iquitos are not evidence of communal residence. Rubber-boom history, including the Peruvian Amazon Company and forced displacement, is given as documented history without sensationalism. The manguare is described as a communication and public ceremonial instrument including how the drummed-speech system works, following published peer-reviewed research; no message-by-message code table is reproduced, because none was consulted. The medicine section covers coca and tobacco fully as cultural and cosmological instruments but gives no preparation methods, plant parts, doses or plant-plus-method combinations. All prose is original; no chants, ceremonial speech or narrative translations are reproduced. Ritual role terms recorded in the literature for neighbouring Uitoto dance organisation were deliberately not attributed to the Bora. Awaiting contributor and community review.

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Music and dance

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    AI note: sections-wave3-2026-08: compiled with AI assistance as original prose from cited public sources (https://bdpi.cultura.gob.pe/pueblos/bora, https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/2983?lang=en, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170354, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_people, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brus_Rubio, https://amazonecology.org/blogs/news/chicha-de-pijuayo-festival-in-brillo-nuevo, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1663/0013-0001(2002)056%5B0027:MAMCHA%5D2.0.CO;2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide). Sensitivity: The pottery section is omitted entirely. No source consulted described Bora clay sources, forming, firing, vessel forms or current production, and writing one would have meant generalising from neighbouring peoples. The gap is left open for contributors rather than filled. Population figures are reported with their sources and not reconciled: 1,151 self-identified (2017 census), 748 speakers (Ministry of Education fieldwork), about 781 in Bora communities (Ministry of Culture), about 2,000 across three countries in reference works; the fact that the community figure is lower than the self-identification figure is flagged rather than smoothed over. Language classification is presented as disputed, with Aschmann's 1993 Bora-Witoto proposal and the 2016 rejection by Echeverri and Seifart both named. Miranha and Miranya are recorded as rubber-era exonyms to avoid. The thirty-two kilometre manguare range cited by the Ministry of Culture is flagged as a claimed maximum. Staged tourist performance is distinguished from community practice in the today and architecture sections, including the published finding that tourism at Pucaurquillo shaped a public performance of Bora identity, and the note that tourist-reception malocas near Iquitos are not evidence of communal residence. Rubber-boom history, including the Peruvian Amazon Company and forced displacement, is given as documented history without sensationalism. The manguare is described as a communication and public ceremonial instrument including how the drummed-speech system works, following published peer-reviewed research; no message-by-message code table is reproduced, because none was consulted. The medicine section covers coca and tobacco fully as cultural and cosmological instruments but gives no preparation methods, plant parts, doses or plant-plus-method combinations. All prose is original; no chants, ceremonial speech or narrative translations are reproduced. Ritual role terms recorded in the literature for neighbouring Uitoto dance organisation were deliberately not attributed to the Bora. Awaiting contributor and community review.

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Ceremonial life

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    AI note: sections-wave3-2026-08: compiled with AI assistance as original prose from cited public sources (https://bdpi.cultura.gob.pe/pueblos/bora, https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/2983?lang=en, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170354, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_people, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brus_Rubio, https://amazonecology.org/blogs/news/chicha-de-pijuayo-festival-in-brillo-nuevo, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1663/0013-0001(2002)056%5B0027:MAMCHA%5D2.0.CO;2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide). Sensitivity: The pottery section is omitted entirely. No source consulted described Bora clay sources, forming, firing, vessel forms or current production, and writing one would have meant generalising from neighbouring peoples. The gap is left open for contributors rather than filled. Population figures are reported with their sources and not reconciled: 1,151 self-identified (2017 census), 748 speakers (Ministry of Education fieldwork), about 781 in Bora communities (Ministry of Culture), about 2,000 across three countries in reference works; the fact that the community figure is lower than the self-identification figure is flagged rather than smoothed over. Language classification is presented as disputed, with Aschmann's 1993 Bora-Witoto proposal and the 2016 rejection by Echeverri and Seifart both named. Miranha and Miranya are recorded as rubber-era exonyms to avoid. The thirty-two kilometre manguare range cited by the Ministry of Culture is flagged as a claimed maximum. Staged tourist performance is distinguished from community practice in the today and architecture sections, including the published finding that tourism at Pucaurquillo shaped a public performance of Bora identity, and the note that tourist-reception malocas near Iquitos are not evidence of communal residence. Rubber-boom history, including the Peruvian Amazon Company and forced displacement, is given as documented history without sensationalism. The manguare is described as a communication and public ceremonial instrument including how the drummed-speech system works, following published peer-reviewed research; no message-by-message code table is reproduced, because none was consulted. The medicine section covers coca and tobacco fully as cultural and cosmological instruments but gives no preparation methods, plant parts, doses or plant-plus-method combinations. All prose is original; no chants, ceremonial speech or narrative translations are reproduced. Ritual role terms recorded in the literature for neighbouring Uitoto dance organisation were deliberately not attributed to the Bora. Awaiting contributor and community review.

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Health and healing

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    AI note: sections-wave3-2026-08: compiled with AI assistance as original prose from cited public sources (https://bdpi.cultura.gob.pe/pueblos/bora, https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/2983?lang=en, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170354, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_people, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brus_Rubio, https://amazonecology.org/blogs/news/chicha-de-pijuayo-festival-in-brillo-nuevo, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1663/0013-0001(2002)056%5B0027:MAMCHA%5D2.0.CO;2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide). Sensitivity: The pottery section is omitted entirely. No source consulted described Bora clay sources, forming, firing, vessel forms or current production, and writing one would have meant generalising from neighbouring peoples. The gap is left open for contributors rather than filled. Population figures are reported with their sources and not reconciled: 1,151 self-identified (2017 census), 748 speakers (Ministry of Education fieldwork), about 781 in Bora communities (Ministry of Culture), about 2,000 across three countries in reference works; the fact that the community figure is lower than the self-identification figure is flagged rather than smoothed over. Language classification is presented as disputed, with Aschmann's 1993 Bora-Witoto proposal and the 2016 rejection by Echeverri and Seifart both named. Miranha and Miranya are recorded as rubber-era exonyms to avoid. The thirty-two kilometre manguare range cited by the Ministry of Culture is flagged as a claimed maximum. Staged tourist performance is distinguished from community practice in the today and architecture sections, including the published finding that tourism at Pucaurquillo shaped a public performance of Bora identity, and the note that tourist-reception malocas near Iquitos are not evidence of communal residence. Rubber-boom history, including the Peruvian Amazon Company and forced displacement, is given as documented history without sensationalism. The manguare is described as a communication and public ceremonial instrument including how the drummed-speech system works, following published peer-reviewed research; no message-by-message code table is reproduced, because none was consulted. The medicine section covers coca and tobacco fully as cultural and cosmological instruments but gives no preparation methods, plant parts, doses or plant-plus-method combinations. All prose is original; no chants, ceremonial speech or narrative translations are reproduced. Ritual role terms recorded in the literature for neighbouring Uitoto dance organisation were deliberately not attributed to the Bora. Awaiting contributor and community review.

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Architecture

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    AI note: sections-wave3-2026-08: compiled with AI assistance as original prose from cited public sources (https://bdpi.cultura.gob.pe/pueblos/bora, https://journals.openedition.org/caravelle/2983?lang=en, https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170354, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bora_people, https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brus_Rubio, https://amazonecology.org/blogs/news/chicha-de-pijuayo-festival-in-brillo-nuevo, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1663/0013-0001(2002)056%5B0027:MAMCHA%5D2.0.CO;2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putumayo_genocide). Sensitivity: The pottery section is omitted entirely. No source consulted described Bora clay sources, forming, firing, vessel forms or current production, and writing one would have meant generalising from neighbouring peoples. The gap is left open for contributors rather than filled. Population figures are reported with their sources and not reconciled: 1,151 self-identified (2017 census), 748 speakers (Ministry of Education fieldwork), about 781 in Bora communities (Ministry of Culture), about 2,000 across three countries in reference works; the fact that the community figure is lower than the self-identification figure is flagged rather than smoothed over. Language classification is presented as disputed, with Aschmann's 1993 Bora-Witoto proposal and the 2016 rejection by Echeverri and Seifart both named. Miranha and Miranya are recorded as rubber-era exonyms to avoid. The thirty-two kilometre manguare range cited by the Ministry of Culture is flagged as a claimed maximum. Staged tourist performance is distinguished from community practice in the today and architecture sections, including the published finding that tourism at Pucaurquillo shaped a public performance of Bora identity, and the note that tourist-reception malocas near Iquitos are not evidence of communal residence. Rubber-boom history, including the Peruvian Amazon Company and forced displacement, is given as documented history without sensationalism. The manguare is described as a communication and public ceremonial instrument including how the drummed-speech system works, following published peer-reviewed research; no message-by-message code table is reproduced, because none was consulted. The medicine section covers coca and tobacco fully as cultural and cosmological instruments but gives no preparation methods, plant parts, doses or plant-plus-method combinations. All prose is original; no chants, ceremonial speech or narrative translations are reproduced. Ritual role terms recorded in the literature for neighbouring Uitoto dance organisation were deliberately not attributed to the Bora. Awaiting contributor and community review.