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Title:		The conversion story of Kooamua
		Kooamua-Ka
		The documentation of the Marquesan languages and culture in French Polynesia
Contributor:		Gaby Cablitz
		Marie-Madeleine Bruneau
Coverage:		French Polynesia
Date:		1998-04-28
Description:		This is the story of the cannibal Kooamua from Hatihe'u (Nuku Hiva island) of how he got converted to Christianity by one of the first catholic missionaries, called 'Orai by the locals, on Nuku Hiva island. Ko'oamua, a cannibal (see 'Here-Ka') and Ki'ipu'eva both from Hatiheu dislike the work of the missionaries and they have the intention of putting him out of their way. One day, the missionary whio resides in Taiohae intends to go to Hatiheu to give a mess there. On his way to Hatiheu he is captured by Kooamua and his helper Ki'ipu'eva who throw him into an old deep pit for fermented breadfruit ('uua maa) in the hope that the missionary will find his end there. Pity overcomes Ki'ipu'eva at night and he frees the missionary from the hole. The missionary, however, has to promise Ki'ipu'eva that he will not rapport his doings to Ko'oamua because he fears that he might kill him. The next morning the church bell rings to invite the locals to mess. Ko'oamua realises that the missionary has survived and he plans to shoot him at night in the mission house. At night he goes there, shoots the missionary by believing that he achieved his goal. The next morning Ko'oamua hears the church bells again. This is the turning point because he believes that the god of the missionary is stronger than his own; impressed by that he finally converts to Christianity.
		The project documents several different aspects of the Marquesan culture (legends, narratives, food preparation, plant medicine, fishing techniques, Marquesan trick languages, songs, dances etc.)
		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 = 'Unspecified', Discursive = 'Unspecified', Performance = 'historical-narrative'. These values have been added as Keys to the Content information.
		Apart from using French and Tahitian loanwords and code-switched forms, North Marquesan was the only language used during the session.
		There was also Ka's wife directly present during the session. The whole recording session was very noisy because there were children and other people nearby; although their speech is recorded, they did not participate in the session.
		former Ph.D-student at the MPI for Psycholinguistics at the language acquisition section (W.Klein); four field trips to North Marquesas islands (Nuku Hiva, Ua Pou) collecting adult as well as child data; Marie-Madeleine Bruneau was Cablitz's major field assistant between 1997-1999.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		text/x-toolbox-text
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		CC
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-3B54-6
		MQ
Publisher:		Gaby Cablitz, George Teikiehuupoko (Marquesas), Edgar Tetahiotupa (Tahiti)
		Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Académie Marquisienne (Tuhuna 'Eo 'Enata)
Subject:		North Marquesan language
		Marquesan, North
		French language
		Tahitian language
Subject (ISO639):		mrq
		fra
		tah
Type:		audio
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-3B54-6
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Citation:		Gaby Cablitz; Marie-Madeleine Bruneau. 1998-04-28. Gaby Cablitz, George Teikiehuupoko (Marquesas), Edgar Tetahiotupa (Tahiti).
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Inferred Metadata
Country:		FranceFrench Polynesia
Area:		EuropePacific