Marriage 

Marriage is always contracted with a person of another race uteri, with the particularity that implies, by the man's parents, the dowry to the woman's parents. The Wayuu occasionally practiced polygamy, which is a framework of prestige. Within Wayuu society, women play an important social role.

Rites 

The Wayuu have male and female shamans, who for his cures using traditional techniques singing with maraca, use of snuff, suction of pathogens, etc..

Funeral Rites

The bones of the deceased are placed in an urn and women should bathe the deceased. There are two funerals.

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During the exhumation, one can not mourn because after the spirits Jepira not want to go," says the graduate student in computer science, which opens in the ritual. will be a long day. 

 She must be awake 24 hours, surrounded by relatives who speak and sing for him not to rest. If you do, the dead can take over his body. The smell chirrinchi-liquor made ​​from fermented sugar cane, is so pervasive that it seems to get drunk to the present. A woman dressed in a colorful blanket and headdress move out, along with his young daughter, the contents of two jars (symbolizing the men and women) throughout the cemetery. Are giving them to take guests to come from the beyond. The air is filled with the smoke of snuff, which puffs out by a group of women

Some women bathe the coffins with several bottles of whiskey, which pass from hand to hand.The receiving container quaff a drink from the bottle and then it happens. Others cover their faces with a handkerchief sorry. The polls are uncovered and those responsible for the exhumation are quick to cover the skull of the deceased with a white cloth. The audience watches expectantly. Inside the coffin there are only bones that are cleaned with a cloth soaked in chirrinchi and arranged in a coffer of marble. In this task occupy more than an hour