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Title:Myth: The Payetan People
RG90M-Payetan
Organization of a Text Collection in Trumai, Aiming at its Scientific Documentation
Contributor:Raquel Guirardello-Damian
Contributor (consultant):Speaker1
Coverage:Brazil
Date:1990-07-24
Description:ENGLISH: Myth about the Payetan people, who taught the Trumai group how to perform the Javari festivity. The myth was narrated by a Trumai storyteller. During the narration, he also sang one of the songs of the Javari festivity. --- PORTUGUES: Mito sobre o povo Payetan, que ensinou os Trumai como fazer a festa do Javari. O mito foi narrado por um Trumai já idoso. Durante a narrativa, ele também canta algumas das músicas da festa do Javari.
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.
This file was generated from an IMDI 1.9 file and transformed to IMDI 3.0. The substructure of Genre is replaced by two elements named "Genre" and "SubGenre". The original content of Genre substructure was: Interactional = '', Discursive = '', Performance = 'narrative'. These values have been added as Keys to the Content information.
Narration about the Payetan people, possibly a mythical group who taught the Trumai people how to perform the Javari festivity. The myth was narrated by a Trumai storyteller, who spontaneously decided to talk about this topic.
The Trumai storyteller talks in Trumai. In the background, there is sometimes some conversation in Trumai.
The myth was narrated by speaker 1.
Speaker1 was a native speaker of Trumai. He was considered the best storyteller of the Trumai people. He was also an expert in ritual chants, being very respected by other Xinguan groups. He had knowledge about medicinal plants and roots, and shamanism practices. He was old (above 70) when the died in 1995.
RGD is a linguist who has been studying the Trumai language since 1989.
Format:audio/x-wav
CC
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-E1E8-3
Documentation of Trumai
Publisher:Raquel Guirardello-Damian
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Discourse
Narrative
Myth
Trumai language
Trumaí
Subject (ISO639):tpy
Type:audio

OLAC Info

Archive:  The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-E1E8-3
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Search Info

Citation: Speaker1 (consultant); Raquel Guirardello-Damian. 1990-07-24. Raquel Guirardello-Damian.
Terms: area_Americas country_BR iso639_tpy

Inferred Metadata

Country: Brazil
Area: Americas


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