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Title:Traditional Upper Xinguan Foods
RG02Food
Organization of a Text Collection in Trumai, Aiming at its Scientific Documentation
Contributor:Speaker2
Raquel
Coverage:Brazil
Date:2002-07-26
Description:ENGLISH: A Trumai speaker talks about traditional types of food eaten by Upper Xinguan groups, such as a kind of bread made of beans (named: kumanaro), various types of animals, some insects (grasshopper, big ants), etc. ----- PORTUGUÊS: Um falante de Trumai comenta sobre comida tradicionais consumidas por grupos alto-xinguanos, tais como um tipo de pão feito de feijão (chamado: kumanaro), vários tipos de animais, alguns insetos (gafanhoto, saúvas), etc.
The purpose of the project is to document Trumai, a genetically isolate language spoken in Brazil. The archive consists of a collection of texts in the language, plus other kinds of materials relative to the Trumai culture, such as photos, drawings, songs, educational materials, etc.
A Trumai speaker talks about kinds of food that Upper Xinguan groups traditionally eat, such as a kind of bread made of beans, named 'kumanaro' in Trumai.
The speaker talks in Trumai.
Speaker2 talks to the researcher, who is behind the video camera.
Speaker2 is considered one of the best speakers of the Trumai language. He also has strong knowledge about various aspects of the Trumai culture. He has been living in the city of Canarana since 1996, because of health problems. He lives with his wife and kids. Both his parents were Trumai. Speaker2 is married to a Kamayurá woman, who also speaks Trumai. He is middle-aged, has various kids and grand-kids.
Raquel is a Brazilian linguist. She has been working with the Trumai people since 1989. She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Rice University (Houston, Texas, U.S.A).
Format:video/x-mpeg1
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-3A6A-6
Documentation of Trumai
Publisher:Raquel Guirardello-Damian
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Discourse
Explanation
Trumai traditions
Trumai language
Trumaí
Subject (ISO639):tpy
Type:video

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Citation: Speaker2; Raquel. 2002-07-26. Raquel Guirardello-Damian.
Terms: area_Americas country_BR iso639_tpy

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Country: Brazil
Area: Americas


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