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Title:The Yamurikuma festivity of old times
RG03YamuAntigo
Organization of a Text Collection in Trumai, Aiming at its Scientific Documentation
Contributor:Speaker12
Raquel
Coverage:Brazil
Date:2003-09-16
Description:ENGLISH: A Trumai woman talks about the way the Trumai people of old times ("Trumai daine") used to clebrate the Yamurikuma festivity. The speaker learned this information from her parents, when she was a child. She performs briefly some of Yamurikuma songs; several of them are in the Trumai language. The speaker also contrasts the way the Trumai people used to perform the festivity with the way the Kamayura people do it. ----- PORTUGUÊS: Uma mulher Trumai fala sobre o modo como os Trumai de antigamente ("Trumai daine") costumavam celebrar a festa de Yamurikuma. Ela aprendeu essa informação com os pais, quando era criança. Ela canta brevemente algumas das canções antigas de Yamurikuma; várias delas são na língua Trumai. Também faz algumas comparações entre o modo como os Trumai faziam a festa e o modo como os Kamayurá a fazem.
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 woman talks about how the Trumai people used to celebrate the Yamurikuma festivity in old times. The sessions is not exactly a historical narrative, but rather information about historical facts. It also contain songs.
The speaker talks in Trumai. Some of the songs performed by her are also in Trumai. The other songs have special lyrics (they are not in the Trumai language).
The talk is perfomed by Speaker 12.
Speaker12 is a native speaker of Trumai. Both her parents were Trumai. She and her brother are the last descendents of the Awaldat group, a Trumai subdivision that used to speak a different dialect of the language. However, this dialect seems to have disappeared (Speaker12's way of speaking is similar to the way of speaking of the other Trumai individuals). Her late husband was Kayabi. She lives with her son and daughter-in-law and has several grandchildren. She is middle-aged (50 or more).
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:audio/x-wav
MD
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-3B26-5
Documentation of Trumai
Publisher:Raquel Guirardello-Damian
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Discourse
Historical-narrative
Upper Xingu festivities
Trumai language
Trumaí
Subject (ISO639):tpy
Type:audio

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Citation: Speaker12; Raquel. 2003-09-16. Raquel Guirardello-Damian.
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Country: Brazil
Area: Americas


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