Oct 24, 2025
Clay, Culture, and Crisis: How Climate Change Threatens the Waurá Pottery Tradition
In the heart of Brazil’s Xingu National Park, the Waurá people have shaped clay into vessels of memory for over a thousand years. Their pottery—crafted from riverbed clay and bound with a freshwater sponge called cauxi—is more than utility. It’s ritual, identity, and intergenerational storytelling. But today, this ancient art is under threat, not from cultural erosion, but from the climate crisis…
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