OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-3876-5 |
Metadata | ||
Title: | Shamans and spirits | |
Shaman1 | ||
Documentatio of the Upper Xingu Carib language or Kuikuro | ||
Contributor: | Bruna Franchetto | |
Tehuku | ||
Coverage: | Brazil | |
Date: | 2001-07-20 | |
Description: | In the middle of the afternoon, invited by Tehuku, one of the Kuikuro shamans, the researcher (BF) sat near him, while he was smoking a long cigar made with tobaco leaves, inside his half-built house. Tehuku wanted BF to document informations on shaman world. Local: Kuikuro village at Ipatse, Upper 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, and 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. | ||
The shaman Tehuku tells first the story of his initiation to shamanistic knowledge; he continues, answering BF questions, with the identification of the "hyper-beings" (itseke) or supernatural beings specifying their characteristics, environment and ritual associations. | ||
The performer uses only kuikuro. | ||
The researcher BF; Tehuku, informant; members of Tehuku family | ||
DOBES.SESSIONNR="01 " | ||
Format: | audio/x-wav | |
Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-3876-5 | |
CNPq 302038/84-1 | ||
Subject: | Kuikúro-Kalapálo language | |
Portuguese language | ||
Subject (ISO639): | kui | |
por | ||
Type: | audio | |
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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_00-0000-0000-0001-3876-5 | |
DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
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Citation: | Bruna Franchetto; Tehuku; Bruna Franchetto. 2001-07-20. 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 |