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  The Xavante Indians of Brazil reach out in the struggle for their land and their survival.
The Xavante once defended a vast territory between the Araguaia and Tocantins rivers but were forced by Brazilian expansionism to settle on a reservation near the Rio Das Mortes, or River of Death, named after a bloody battle between the tribe and encroaching settlers.
Xavante leaders have walked the halls of power in the capital city of Brasilia wearing soccer shorts and tennis shoes, body paint and headdresses and carrying briefcases of legal documents.
Xavante villages are arranged in a crescent of large shelters made of tree trunks, bamboo and palm leaves.
www.nativeland.org /circle.html   (3785 words)

  
  Online Encyclopedia and Dictionary - Xavante language
The Xavante people are renowned as aggressive and prideful, but are most famous for their dualistic societal structure.
The Xavante are also known for their complex initiation rituals for young males in which a wooden earring is inserted in the earlobe.
The Xavante language is unique because of its 13 vowels and matching 13 consonants, its Object-Subject-Verb grammatical organization, and its interesting use of honorary and endearment terms in its morphology.
fact-archive.com /encyclopedia/Xavante_language   (145 words)

  
 Xavante
Some of the other distinctive features of Xavante culture include the complex and lengthy initiation rites for boys, culminating in the ear piercing ceremony – at which time small rounded wooden sticks are inserted into their earlobes.
The Xavante are also famous for their traditional log races, where the two clans compete in a baton-passing style race for several kilometers carrying buriti palm trunks weighing up to 80 kilos.
McLeod, Ruth, 1974, Fonemas Xavante (in Portuguese, 128 kB), Série Lingüística Nº 3: 131-152.
www.sil.org /americas/brasil/LANGPAGE/EnglXVPg.htm   (554 words)

  
 The Xavante Lua Web Server
Xavante 1.2 was implemented by Javier Guerra, André Carregal, Fábio Mascarenhas and Leonardo Godinho.
Xavante 1.1 was redesigned and implemented by Javier Guerra and André Carregal.
Xavante 1.0 was designed and implemented by André Carregal as part of the Kepler Project with contributions from Renato Crivano and Danilo Tuler.
www.keplerproject.org /xavante   (269 words)

  
 The Xavante Lua Web Server Manual
Xavante follows the package model for Lua 5.1, therefore it should be "installed".
An example of a Unix Xavante installation for Lua 5.0 is the one used by Kepler.
The first is the configuration for the Unix installation, the latter is the configuration file for Xavante and is detailed in the next section.
www.keplerproject.org /xavante/manual.html   (1046 words)

  
 Xavante - a Lua Web Server - SWiK   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Xavante is a Lua HTTP 1.1 Web server that uses a modular architecture based on handlers.
Xavante is free software and uses the same license as Lua 5.0.
Xavante currently offers a file handler, a redirect handler and a CGILua handler for general files, URL remapping and CGILua 5.0 scripts respectively.
swik.net /xavante   (439 words)

  
 The Xavante Lua Web Server Sajax
Xavante offers a Lua version of Sajax that can be used in AJAX applications.
The response is handled by the client-side JavaScript; if the response is positive, the callback function is called with the returned value, if the response signals an error, an alert is posted.
The Xavante dispatch code calls the required function, no CGILua environment is set up.
www.keplerproject.org /xavante/sajax.html   (885 words)

  
 Ethnologue report for language code:xav
Being placed on reservations forced them to abandon seminomadic means of survival, and learn swidden agriculture.
Os sistemas fonológicos e gráficos xavante e português: Análise contrastiva.
Harrison, Alec J. Xavante morphology and respect/intimacy relationships.
www.ethnologue.com /show_language.asp?code=xav   (187 words)

  
 DER Documentary: Wapté Mnhõnõ, The Xavante's Initiation / Video in the Villages collection
A documentary about the initiation ritual of young Xavante Indians, realized during a training workshop.
Invited by Divino, one Suyá and four Xavantes Indians shoot collectively for the first time.
As the ritual goes on, various members of the village explain the significance of the segments of this complex ceremony.
www.der.org /films/wapte-mnhono.html   (191 words)

  
 Re: [Ann] Xavante 1.1 Beta
Kepler Project's Xavante and Javier Guerra's luahttpd have merged in a single project and we have just released the first public version of it
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