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Title:The Valley of the Río Huamelula - El valle del Río Huamelula
Valley
Lowland Chontal Language and Cultural Heritage. A Documentation Project in the District of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico.
Contributor:Peter
Contributor (consultant):Jesús
Bartólo
Coverage:Mexico
Date:2004-09-16
Description:The consultants and the collector visit and film the landscape and talk about Chontal place names and landscape terms.
Los consultantes y el investigador visiten y filman el paisaje y hablan sobre los toponimos y términos del paisaje en chontal
The "Lowland Chontal Language and Cultural Heritage Project" is a three-year linguistic and ethnographic documentation project (2004-2007) of the Lowland Chontal in the Mexican State of Oaxaca. It is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, Hanover, Germany, through its DoBeS program. Additional funding was generously provided by the UNESCO, section of intangible cultural heritage, Paris. The project is hosted by the Section of Mesoamericanist Studies, Archaeological Institute, of the University of Hamburg, Germany, through project director Prof. Dr. Ortwin Smailus. The Goals of the project are both linguistic and anthropological, with principal investigators Dr. Loretta O'Connor (linguist) and Dr. Peter Kroefges (anthropologist). These goals include (1) A Chontal-English-Spanish dictionary, (2) a comprehensive description of the gramar of Lowland Chontal, (3) a documentation of the cultural heritage of the Chontalpa, with respect to traditional subsistence activities, territorial organization, landscape interaction, as well as fiestas and ceremonies, and (4) an electronic archive of all audio and video materials and related texts. This archive includes resources from O'Connor's dissertation project at the University of California at Santa Barbara (1997-2001), and at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nymegen, Netherlands, (2002-2004). It also contains archaeological and ethnohistorical data that formed part of the dissertation by Kroefges, and was funded by the Foundation for the advancement of Mesoamericanist Studies, Inc. Florida, and the University at ALbany, State University of New York.
El Proyecto "Idioma y Patrimonio Cultural del Chontal de la Costa" es una documentación llevada a cabo des 2004 hasta 2007, becado por la Fundación Volkswagen, Hanover, Alemania, y recibio fondos adicionales de la UNESCO, Paris. El proyecto es administrado por la sección de Estudios Mesoamericanistas del Instituto Arqueológico de la Universidad de Hamburgo, Alemania, bajo la supervisión del profesor Dr. Ortwin Smailus. Los objetivos del proyecto son tanto lingüísticas como antropológicas, con Dr. Loretta O'Connor (lingüista) y Dr. Peter Kroefges (antropólogo) en función de investigadores principales. Los objetivos incluyen: (1) un diccionario chontal-inglés-castellano, (2) una descripción comprensiva de la gramática del chontal de la costa, una documentación del patrimonio cultural en cuanto a las actividades de subsistencia tradicionales, organización territorial, interacción con el paisaje, fiestas y ceremonias, y (4) un archivo electrónico de todas las grabaciones de audio y vedeo, asi como de textos relacionados. Este archivo inclye datos del proyecto doctoral de O'Connor, realizado en la Universidad de California, Santa Barbara (1997-2001), y en el Instituto Max-Planck de Psicolingüisticas en Nijmegen, Paises Bajos (2002-2004). También contiene datos arqueológicos y etnohistóricos del proyecto doctoral de Kroefges (2001), apoyado por fondos de la Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamericanist Studies, Inc., Florida, E.U., y de la Universidad de Albany, Universidad Estatal de Nueva York.
The consultants and the collector walk along the valley and the consultants point to several landscape elements and tell their Chontal names.
This collector is a trained anthropologist/archaeologist. He speaks German, Spanish, and English, and only knows very few words in Chontal. In order to understand his consultants, Spanish is necessary.
This consultant is a family father who subsists of maize farming and has some sporadic additional businesses. He has a limited understanding of Chontal language, understands much better than being able to phrase. He has served in the towns's council several years ago.
This consultant is a family father who subsists by maize agriculture and has a position as a community representative. His parents speak more Chontal than he does; his active skills are limited but above average, and his passive skills even better. He has special knowledge in community rituals and has been active in the fields of heritage preservation.
Format:audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg1
video/x-mpeg2
DVDROM
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-A911-B
Publisher:Peter Kroefges
University of Hamburg, Archaeological Institute, Mesoamerican Studies
Subject:Discourse
Conversation
landscape terms and toponyms
Spanish language
Lowland Oaxaca Chontal language
Chontal de Oaxaca - Costa
Subject (ISO639):spa
clo
Type:audio
video

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Citation: Peter; Jesús (consultant); Bartólo (consultant). 2004-09-16. Peter Kroefges.
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Country: SpainMexico
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