Ana Maria A. Machado

Anthropologist and Yanomami translator, Ana Maria A. Machado has a degree in Educational Sciences. In 2003, she began working in the field of indigenous education, as a scientific initiation scholar, with the Xakriabá people. Since 2007, she has worked with the Yanomami people. Throughout these years, she participated in teaching training projects, guiding autoethnographic research, in linguistic and cultural documentation projects or advising on the production of books written in Yanomami languages. Stands out her collaboration with the researcher and artist Ehuana Yaira Yanomami, with whom she published Yɨpɨmuwi thëã oni (Words about Menstruation), the first book written by a woman in Yanomami language, in which she describes menstruation rituals and the role of women in her community.