OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1118365

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Title:		last food for the deceased
		dernier repas par le forgeron avant l'enterrement
		A usage-based grammar of Cuvok with focus on documenting the endangered social role of blacksmiths of the Tchouvok community
Coverage:		Cameroon
Date:		2015-11-28
Description:		the video shows the role of the smiths in the burial ceremony. the women of the smith pays a key role during this phase. she brings the food to the smith who conducted the divination ceremony. He presents the food to the stones and the food is shared among the smiths. this is to tell the corpse that it its last last to be with the family members during the food time
		Cuvok is a Central Chadic language spoken in the Far North Region of Cameroon. Tchouvok traditional society pivots around blacksmiths, who play a number of other key social roles: doctor, metalworker, mortician, mind-reader, and midwife. With the introduction of Islam, Christianity and modernism, the knowledge possessed by the blacksmith is no longer transmitted to the younger generation. This documentation project is integrated into my PhD research, which aims at a usage-based grammatical description of Cuvok. Much of my corpus will be composed of video recordings. Ethnographic notes will complement my annotated texts.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		video/mp4
		text/x-eaf+xml
		text/x-pfsx+xml
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1118365
		0367
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1118365%23
Publisher:		NDOKOBAI Dadak
		The University of Maroua, Cameroon
Type:		Audio
		Video
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1118365
DateStamp:		2018-10-23
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Citation:		n.a. 2015-11-28. NDOKOBAI Dadak.