Bigi Poika is a resort located in the Para District. Its population at the 2012 census was 525. The population of the eponomymous main village was 267 people in 2022. In 1978–9, a British Social Anthropologist from the London School of Economics, Lesley Forrest, did her fieldwork in Bigi Poika. She lived for over a year with the Carib Indians, within the fam…Bigi Poika is a resort located in the Para District. Its population at the 2012 census was 525. The population of the eponomymous main village was 267 people in 2022. In 1978–9, a British Social Anthropologist from the London School of Economics, Lesley Forrest, did her fieldwork in Bigi Poika. She lived for over a year with the Carib Indians, within the family group of the headman, and studied their changing economic and social organisation, with particular reference to the complexity of female production. The population at that time was approximately 300. Lesley Forrest's study, based entirely on her own observations, was the basis of a PhD thesis submitted in 1987.
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