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Title:Story of Vaitotokua
Vaitotokua-Ti
Documentation of the Marquesan languages and cultures in French Polynesia
Contributor:Gaby
Titi
Coverage:French Polynesia
Date:2004-06-20
Description:Story about Vaitotoku'a and her husband who tries to take her out of Havaiki, the Polynesian realm of the dead, to the world of the living which fails because he disrespects the rules and conditions imposed of him. .
Documentation of the various Marquesan dialects spoken on the islands of the Marquesas (French Polynesia). Broad collection of texts and different genres; documented topics include: food and food preparation, plant medicine, story-telling and mythology, trick languages, song and danse, fishing and navigation, aspects of material culture, plants and plant products, local history.
Ga is the linguistic researcher and data collector in the Marquesan DoBeS-project.
Ti grew up on Nuku Hiva (Ho'oumi) and came to live on 'Ua Pou at age 18 where she has been living ever since. She mostly speaks the 'Ua Pou vernacular, but sometimes switches to the Nuku Hiva vernacular. She is also very fluent in French. Ti understands Tahitian, but doesn't speak it. Ti knows a lot about plant medicine knowledge passed on by her mother. She knows a number of things about old Marquesan culture through her father (born in 1901).
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Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-6C70-6
MQ
Publisher:Gabriele Cablitz
University of Kiel; Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Discourse
Narrative
Polynesian underworld
North Marquesan language
Marquesan, North
French language
Subject (ISO639):mrq
fra
Type:audio
video

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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-6C70-6
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Citation: Gaby; Titi. 2004-06-20. Gabriele Cablitz.
Terms: area_Europe area_Pacific country_FR country_PF iso639_fra iso639_mrq

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Country: FranceFrench Polynesia
Area: EuropePacific


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