Waorani Culture: Amazon Rainforest

Waorani is a culture of a group of people that are located in Ecuador in the Amazon Rainforest. This culture does not have any modern technology that many other cultures have. Waorani culture relies on the Amazon Rainforest for its survival. The Waorani have built their whole life around the utilization of the rainforest. They do not stay in one area of land for very long. Once any of their resources start to become low they pack up and get ready to move to a new area of land in the forest. One reason that they move around so frequently is due to the fact that rainforest soil does not have much nutrition and once the nutrients in the soil is used up farming becomes difficult. When this happens the Waorani people they pack up and moved to a another section of the rainforest. They do this so the land can naturally replenish the nutrients in the soil and eventually the land will be able to be farmed again.
Also, most of the belongings they own can be replaced easily. When the Waorani move they have an old tradition that they burn down their old house. Once they get to their designated area they began to build their homes out of material from the forest. They cut down the trees to build their home and make weapons for hunting. Besides hunting they use the land for farming. In the Waorani culture the men normally cut down the trees, while the women prepare the land area for planting of their main crops. In this culture men and women are considered totally equal even though they do different jobs to