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Title:The Anthropologist Buell Quain
Edu95Quain
Organization of a Text Collection in Trumai, Aiming at its Scientific Documentation
Contributor:Speaker7
Raquel
Coverage:Brazil
Date:1995-10-21
Description:ENGLISH: A short text written by a Trumai teacher in October 1995, during an educational course organized in the Xingu reserve. It is about the stay of the American anthropologist Buell Quain among the Trumai in 1938. ----- PORTUGUÊS: Tequeno texto escrito por uma professora Trumai em Outubro de 1995, durante um curso de educação que ocorreu no Xingu. Fala da estadia do antropólogo americano Buell Quain com os Trumai em 1938.
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 student writes about a historical fact: the visit the anthropologist Buell Quain made to the Trumai in the thirties.
The text was originally writen in Trumai. It was translated into Portuguese and English by the researcher, with the help of the Trumai speaker.
The author of the text is Speaker7.
Speaker7 is a native speaker of Trumai. Her mother is Trumai, her father is Kamayurá. She is married to a Kayabi man, and has a little daughter. She is a school teacher and is engaged in the educational program that is trying to revitalize the language. Speaker7 has worked in the production of educational materials; she teaches Trumai to her students.
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).
This text was produce in written format. There is no audio recording.
Format:application/pdf
text/x-toolbox-text
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-3C78-C
Documentation of Trumai
Publisher:Raquel Guirardello-Damian
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Discourse
Historical-narrative
Trumai history
Portuguese language
English language
Trumai language
Trumaí
Subject (ISO639):por
eng
tpy
Type:document

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Citation: Speaker7; Raquel. 1995-10-21. Raquel Guirardello-Damian.
Terms: area_Americas area_Europe country_BR country_GB country_PT iso639_eng iso639_por iso639_tpy

Inferred Metadata

Country: BrazilUnited KingdomPortugal
Area: AmericasEurope


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