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Title:The life and death of Tamakahi or the "bow master"
Tamakahi2
Descrição e análise de línguas indígenas brasileiras. Gramática Kuikuro; Etnografia da Oralidade
Contributor:Agatsipá
Bruna Franchetto
Coverage:Brazil
Date:1999-08-05
Description:The old Agatsipá (Ijali) tells a "true story" (akinha ekugu) in his house to the researcher BF at the Kuikuro village (Ipatse).
Documentation, description and analysis of the Kuikuro language (Carib). Phonetics and phonology; morphology; syntax. Comparison with the other Upper Xingu Carib variants (Kalapalo/Nahukwá/Matipu). Comparison with other Carib languages: the place of the Upper Xingu Carib inside the Carib family, as member of the southern branch. Social/political identity and linguistic identity in a multilingual society (the Upper Xingu). Ethnography of oral traditions: narrative, oratory, cerimonial discourse, curing formulas, chanted speech, songs. Verbal art and discourse genres in the Upper Xingu. The research on the Kuikuro language began in 1976; since 1984 it has been partially supported by the CNPq (brazilian national counsel for scientific and technological development) and by the FINEP (brazilian governmental foundation for graduate courses) through the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology, National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.
This file was generated from an IMDI 1.9 file and transformed to IMDI 3.0. The substructure of Genre is replaced by two elements named "Genre" and "SubGenre". The original content of Genre substructure was: Interactional = 'story telling', Discursive = 'narrative', Performance = 'narrative'. These values have been added as Keys to the Content information.
The old Agatsipá tells to the researcher BF a traditional story about the life and death of Tamakahi, called the "bow master" (tahaku oto). Tamakahi is a hero, a warrior, the prototype of a (fierce) man, a defender of his own people from the attacks of savages indians in the old times. Tamakahi is the personnage of narratives at the border between memories of a distant past and myth.
Agatsipá was one of the most appreciared Kuikuro story tellers, a true "master of the stories"(akinhá oto). He was considered also one of the most knowledgeable Kuikuro men, knower of the Kuikuro history and traditions.
Main researcher of the Kuikuro Project, BF is recording the narrative performance of Agatsipa acting, as the same time, as audience and as "what-sayer" of the story teller.
Main researcher of the Project. Professor of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ( National Museum) and of the Graduate Program in Linguistics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Researcher of the National Counsel for Scientific and Technological development (CNPq). She is doing field research on the Upper Xingu Carib Language since 1976 and she realized researches on other carib languges (Macuxi and Taurepang) and on arawak languages (Wapichana). She realizes researches also on oral indigenous traditions (verbal art and poetics) and on indigenous education (policies, writing, production of didactic materials, etc.).
The Kalapalo stories about the "bow master" are presented and analysed by Ellen Basso in her book "The Last Cannibal" (Texas University Press, 1995). Kalapalo are another Carib speaking group of the upper Xingu, neighbour of the Kuikuro and speaking a variant of the upper Xingu Carib language.
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Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-37BF-7
CNPq 302038/84-1
Publisher:Bruna Franchetto
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
Subject:Kuikúro-Kalapálo language
Portuguese language
Subject (ISO639):kui
por
Type:audio

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