Uberaba

The city of Uberaba, where Viatina-19 lives, holds an annual gathering called ExpoZebu that bills itself as the world’s biggest Zebu fair.

Draped in traditional Indian vestments, Karvardi’s preserved body stands in the Zebu Museum in Uberaba, the city in Brazil’s agricultural heartland where Viatina-19 lives.

Uberaba holds an annual gathering called ExpoZebu that bills itself as the world’s biggest Zebu fair.

To document this growing industry, Arantes traveled to a family home in Uberaba, a town in the southern Brazilian Highlands.

"Everything in Uberaba is zebu. Zebu radio, zebu restaurants," said Arantes, who has been following the cattle industry for eight years.