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Tsimané

Indigenous people of Bolivia

Indigenous people of Bolivia

FieldValue
groupTsimané
imageRio Maniqui, nordöstra Bolivia. Indiantyper - SMVK - 005673.tif
captionPhoto taken in 1913 during Erland Nordenskiöld's expedition in Bolivia
pop16,958
popplaceBolivia (Beni)
relsTraditional tribal religion
langsTsimané, Spanish
relatedMosetén

The Tsimané, also known as the **Tsimane'''' or **Chimane''', are an indigenous people of lowland Bolivia, living chiefly in the Beni Department municipalities of San Borja, San Ignacio de Moxos, Rurrenabaque, and Santa Ana del Yacuma. The Tsimané are the main residents of the T'simane Council Territory () and the Pilón Lajas Reserve. They are primarily a subsistence agriculture culture, although hunting and fishing contribute significantly to many of the settlements' food supply. Those Tsimané living in the Reserve are affiliated with the multiethnic Consejo Regional Tsimane Moseten (CRTM), which holds the title to the Reserve as a Native Community Land or TCO.

Name

The Tsimané are also known as the Achumano, Chamano, Chimane, Chimanis, Chimanisa, Chimnisin, Chumano, Nawazi-Moñtji, and Ramano people.

Language

The Tsimané have their own language Tsimané, also called Mosetan, which is a language isolate having several dialect varieties, such as the Mosetén of Santa Ana and the Mosetén of Covendo which are mutually intelligible.

Subsistence

They live in small communities composed of 20 to 30 families. Tsimané and Mosetén people depend mainly on subsistence farming, they cultivate bananas and manioc through swidden agriculture, although hunting, fishing and gathering contribute significantly as a source of food for almost all communities. The population has been undergoing some degree of market integration over the past 15 years, and some Tsimane now participate in the cash economy.

Health

Both the Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study and The Tsimane Health and Life History Project have studied the Tsimane since 2002.{{Cite web | access-date = 2009-08-14 | article-number = e6590 | access-date = 2009-08-14 | doi-access = free | access-date = 2009-08-14 Blood tissue from the Tsimané exhibits a slower intrinsic epigenetic aging rate than that of other populations according to a biomarker of tissue age known as epigenetic clock. This finding might explain the "Tsimane inflammation paradox", wherein high levels of inflammation and infection, and low HDL cholesterol levels, are not associated with accelerated cardiovascular aging.

Tsimané sleep patterns have been studied as an example of "natural" sleep in nonindustrial or preindustrial societies, and to assess relationships between sleep patterns and health. Factors observed include sleep duration, timing, natural light, ambient temperature and seasonality. A normal daily pattern for a Tsimané group is to work during the day, congregate around a fire while cooking food, share a meal, then remain by the fire as it gets dark, sharing stories and information. Children and mothers tend to move away to sleep before male adults, with sleep onset occurring, on average, 3.3 hours after sunset. From beginning to end, sleep periods averaged 6.9–8.5 hours, with actual time slept of 5.7–7.1 hours, less sleep than reported in many industrial societies.

The average Tsimané woman has nine children in her lifetime. A study of 983 Tsimané women found that 70% were infected with the parasitic roundworm Ascaris lumbricoides, which is believed to have increased their fertility rate by suppressing their immune system, leading to two additional children over the course of a lifetime.

Notes

References

  1. "Censo de Población y Vivienda 2012 Bolivia Características de la Población".
  2. [http://www.ethnologue.com/show_language.asp?code=cas "Tsimané."] ''Ethnologue.'' Retrieved 22 Feb 2012.
  3. Fundación UNIR. (2009). "Las identidades en las grandes regiones de Bolivia, Fascículo Nº2". Fundación UNIR.
  4. Costas Monje, Patricia. (January 1, 2001). "Reconfigurando territorios: Reforma agraria, control territorial y gobiernos indígenas en Bolivia". Fundación Tierra.
  5. [http://www.everyculture.com/South-America/Chimane.html "Chimane."] ''Countries and Their Cultures.'' Retrieved 2 March 2012.
  6. Sakel, Jeanette [https://books.google.com/books?id=lqgbgixZgY0C&pg=PA1 ''A grammar of Mosetén,''] [[Mouton de Gruyter]] 2004.This study regards the language as spoken by some 800 people in the foothills and adjoining lowland area of the Bolivian Andes
  7. Bottazzi, Patrick (2014) ''Une écologie politique des territoires tsimane' d'Amazonie bolivienne : notre grande maison''. Institut des hautes études internationales et du développement, Genève (Suisse); Karthala, Paris.
  8. "The Tsimane' Amazonian Panel Study".
  9. (2016). "An epigenetic clock analysis of race/ethnicity, sex, and coronary heart disease.". [[Genome Biol]].
  10. Alejandro Millán, [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceq55l2gdxxo 'Deep in the Amazon rainforest lives a community whose hearts age more slowly ] [[BBC News]] 17 August 2024
  11. (28 April 2022). "The awake ape: Why people sleep less than their primate relatives". Annual Reviews.
  12. (November 2015). "Natural Sleep and Its Seasonal Variations in Three Pre-industrial Societies". Current Biology.
  13. (20 November 2015). "Parasitic worm 'increases' women's fertility'". BBC News.
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