Editing Shuar (section)

==Name==
Shuar, in the [[Shuar language]], means "people".<ref>As [[Claude Lévi-Strauss]] demonstrated, most indigenous people call themselves "people" or "human", designing the "[[Other (philosophy)|Other]]" as "barbarians" or simply "others".</ref>  The people who speak the Shuar language live in [[tropical rainforest]] between the upper mountains of the [[Andes]], and in the tropical rainforests and [[savanna]]s of the [[Amazon River|Amazon]]ian lowlands, in [[Ecuador]]. Shuar live in various places &mdash; thus, the ''muraiya'' (hill) Shuar are people who live in the foothills of the Andes; the ''achu'' (swamp-palm) Shuar (or [[Achuar]]) are people who live in the wetter lowlands east of the Andes (Ecuador).

Shuar refer to Spanish-speakers as ''apach'', and to non-Spanish and non-Shuar speakers as ''inkis''. Europeans and European Americans used to refer to Shuar as "''jívaros''" or "''jíbaros''"; this word probably derives from the 16th century Spanish spelling of ''shuar'' (see Gnerre 1973), but has taken other meanings including "savage"; outside of Ecuador, ''jibaro'' has come to mean "rustic", and in [[Puerto Rico]] to describe a [[Jíbaro (Puerto Rico)|self-sufficient farmer]]. The Shuar are popularly depicted in a wide variety of travelogue and adventure literature because of Western fascination with their former practice of [[Shrunken head|shrinking human heads]] (''tsantsa'').