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Title:Traditional Marquesan song depicting the arrival of Germans
rari_purut-Mi
The documentation of the Marquesan languages and culture in French Polynesia
Contributor:Mi
Gaby Cablitz
Contributor (annotator):Gaby Cablitz
Coverage:French Polynesia
Date:2003-08-16
Description:This session contains a traditional Marquesan song called ru'u or rari often depicting past events. This rari depicts the arrival of German fleet during First World War (by the Scharnhorst) commenting on the German involvement and provocation of the First World war.
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 = 'song'. These values have been added as Keys to the Content information.
The song is basically sung in the Nuku Hiva dialect; however, traditional songs have specific linguistic features and words not to be used in the everyday vernaculars. It is possible that these specific words are based on the rules of the Marquesan trick languages.
North Marquesan was the language used throughout the session. There were no other observers present during the recording.
Mi was born in 1930 and grew up on the island of Nuku Hiva in Ho'oumi with his adoptive father Moa (born in 1901). Mi does not speak French and did not go to school; however, he is not illiterate. Mi is one of the few persons on the Marquesas islands who have a considerable knowledge of the former Marquesan culture, in particular of songs, legends/narratives and dances. He is also one of the few people who can speak Marquesan trick languages fluently. Most of his cultural knowledge was transmitted by his adoptive father.
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
Format:audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg2
video/x-mpeg1
DVD
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-3BE1-A
MQ
Publisher:Gaby Cablitz, George Teikiehuupoko (Marquesas), Edgar Tetahiotupa (Tahiti)
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Académie Marquisienne (Tuhuna 'Eo 'Enata)
Subject:Singing
Individual song
North Marquesan language
Marquesan, North
Subject (ISO639):mrq
Type:audio
video

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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-3BE1-A
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Search Info

Citation: Mi; Gaby Cablitz; Gaby Cablitz (annotator). 2003-08-16. Gaby Cablitz, George Teikiehuupoko (Marquesas), Edgar Tetahiotupa (Tahiti).
Terms: area_Pacific country_PF iso639_mrq

Inferred Metadata

Country: French Polynesia
Area: Pacific


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