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Metadata
Title:Marriage of Puma
beula_rit
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal
Contributor:Arjun Rai
Contributor (speaker):Cakra Bahadur Rai
Gaj Bahadur Rai
Coverage:Nepal
Date:2004-10-30
Description:This session was recordrd at CIsapani VDC, Pathivara-7,Khotang district. In this session, the bride side is demanding the bridegroom. The kongpi Lekpa from the bride groom side and Phengma from the bride side are talking to each in the Puma mundhum language and there is a particular kind of the things to be offered to the bridegroom and the other members.
The aim of the project is to provide a rich linguistic and ethnographic documentation of two highly endangered but almost totally undocumented languages in eastern Nepal, Chintang and Puma. These languages belong to the Kiranti family of Tibeto-Burman. Chintang is spoken by the Chintang Rai in Chintang Village Development Committee (VDC) of Dhankuta district. Puma is spoken by the Puma Rai in Diplung, Mauwabote and Pauwasera VDCs, to the south of Khotang bazar in Khotang district. Both these districts are situated in the eastern hilly part of the country.
In this session, the ritual performer Mr CBR and GBR are performing a ritual. In this session, he has said about the demand of power and good command of the Puma mundhum language.
Puma language is used in this session. It is also used Nepali language in some situation.
GBR and CBR are the shamans from Cisapani VDC, Pathivara-7, Khotang district. Their clan is Thumrahang.
Mr Cakra Bahadur Rai is one of the young energetic person who is also a Puma shaman.
GBR is the settler of Puma area, i.e. Cisapani VDC. He is also a shaman and perform the ritual ceremonies in the village.
He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team.
Format:audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg1
text/x-shoebox-text
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000A-3431-4
CPDP
Publisher:Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel
University of Leipzig
Subject:Ritual texts; Religious texts
Invocation
Shaman dance
Nepali (macrolanguage)
Nepali
Puma language
Subject (ISO639):nep
pum
Type:audio
video

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Search Info

Citation: Cakra Bahadur Rai (speaker); Gaj Bahadur Rai (speaker); Arjun Rai. 2004-10-30. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel.
Terms: area_Asia country_NP iso639_nep iso639_pum

Inferred Metadata

Country: Nepal
Area: Asia


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