OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-3814-8

Metadata
Title:		The culture of honey
		Honey
		Documentatio of the Upper Xingu Carib language or Kuikuro
Contributor:		Bruna Franchetto
		Kamihu
Coverage:		Brazil
Date:		2001-07-22
Description:		The session was created by the researcher (BF) asking to a Kuikuro woman, Kamihú, to participate in the video documentation project with some contribution on the kuikuro traditional material culture. Kamihúdecided to speak about describing how women make cotton yarns. 5 young kuikuro, who have been just taught how to use the video camera, participated as cameramen and interviewers. BF and her assistant (Mara Santos) participated to the planning and to the realization of the session. The session took place inside Kamihúhouse. Local: Aldeia Kuikuro (Ipatse); Parque Indígena do Xingu
		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 project began in December 2000, supported by the Volkswagen Stiftung, part of the DOBES (Documentation of Endangered Languages), with the support of the TIDEL equipe, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen). The project aims the documentation of the Kuikuro language and the construction of a multimidia database: grammar, lexicon, spoken and written texts, video, photos, draws, iconography, etc. The project has also the support of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/Museu Nacional/Department of Anthropology, where it is being realized, and of the CNPq (brazilian national counsel for the scientific and technological development).
		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 = '', Discursive = '', Performance = ''. These values have been added as Keys to the Content information.
		Kamihú, a kuikuro woman, describes and explains aspects of the "culture of honey", including types of bees and honey that exist in the Upper Xingu environment and the ritualized collecting and collective distribution of some kinds of honey.
		In the session only Kuikuro is used. All the kuikuro participants speak kuikuro as their mother language. The 5 kuikuro cameramen speak also portuguese: Magika has a good knowledge, having study in urban schools and having a considerable experience out of the indigenous area; the others have a very initial knowledge of the national language. BF speaks portuguese and kuikuro; her assistants speak only portuguese; Mara Santos has na initial knowledge of the Kuikuro.
		Kamihú(H=Hinhano) as perfomer. 5 kuikuro young men, aged between 16 and 22 years, participate as speakers and cameramen: Magika (F=Tabata, M- Kaküngahu), Amunegi (F=Tahukula, M=Jawapá), Takuma and Mahajugi (F=Samuagü, M=Tapualu), Maluf (F=Lamati, M=Magia). They know how to write and read kuikuro and portuguese with different degrees of proficiency: Magika spent one year in urban schools; the others are students of the local village school. BF as session creator; Mara Santos as assistant.
		DOBES.SESSIONNR="03"
Format:		audio/x-wav
		video/x-mpeg1
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-3814-8
		CNPq 302038/84-1
Subject:		Kuikúro-Kalapálo language
		Portuguese language
Subject (ISO639):		kui
		por
Type:		audio
		video
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-3814-8
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
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Search Info
Citation:		Bruna Franchetto; Kamihu; Bruna Franchetto. 2001-07-22. The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics.
Terms:		area_Americas area_Europe country_BR country_PT iso639_kui iso639_por
Inferred Metadata
Country:		BrazilPortugal
Area:		AmericasEurope