ABSTRACT
There was only one old woman. The old time people only had sex with one woman. The men carried baskets of palm straw, there were no women. There was one old woman, they had sex with her nonstop, her vagina hurt. Whatever one’s position with respect to the use of models in understanding Ge-Bororo social organization, it is clear that Ge-Bororo social organization is remarkably elaborate and that much of this elaborateness is expressed in spatial terms. Social organization is created and reflected by the ways in which villages are spatially arranged. The ritual practices as they take place in space appear subsequent to the mapping of space and therefore effectively take on a secondary role. From around the village, the sounds of children crying at night, of people coughing, or of an elder waking to recount a dream can be heard.
