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Oca is the name given to the typical Brazilian indigenous housing. The term comes from the Tupi-Guarani language family.
They are large buildings, serving as collective housing for several families,
and may reach 40 m in length. They are built through joint effort over one week, with a wooden structure and bamboo and straw cover or palm leaves. They can last up to 15 years. They have no internal divisions or windows, only a few doors.
Amanhã, cerimônia ao pôr do sol inaugura ocas Xavante
by Marina Koçouski.
;Citations Huts Indigenous culture in Brazil Vernacular architecture {{Brazil-struct-stub
Oca is the name given to the typical Brazilian indigenous housing. The term comes from the Tupi-Guarani language family.
They are large buildings, serving as collective housing for several families,
and may reach 40 m in length. They are built through joint effort over one week, with a wooden structure and bamboo and straw cover or palm leaves. They can last up to 15 years. They have no internal divisions or windows, only a few doors.
See also
*Maloca
A maloca is an ancestral long house used by indigenous people of the Amazon, notably in Colombia and Brazil. Each community has a maloca with its own unique characteristics. Several families with patrilineal relations live together in a malo ...
* Vernacular architecture
Vernacular architecture is building done outside any academic tradition, and without professional guidance. This category encompasses a wide range and variety of building types, with differing methods of construction, from around the world, bo ...
References and notes
;General * COP8/MOP3, 16 March 2003Amanhã, cerimônia ao pôr do sol inaugura ocas Xavante
by Marina Koçouski.
;Citations Huts Indigenous culture in Brazil Vernacular architecture {{Brazil-struct-stub