OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000C-3B2C-4

Metadata
Title:		Cecilia's traditional He ika chanting
		BK_Cecilia_He_ika
		Documentation of Cashinahua: Animacy and mythology in Huni Kuin (Cashinahua): a study of linguistic and cognitive categorization in a Panoan language
Contributor:		Barbara
Contributor (singer):		Cecilia
Coverage:		Peru
Date:		1978
Description:		In this session Cecilia, Marcelino's mother, is performing traditional He ika chanting. The recording was made by Barbara Keifenheim in Balta (Ucayali/ Peru) in 1978. All the recordings with Cecilia were performed in the forest with only Barbara Keifenheim present.
		This interdisciplinary project aims at the documentation of Cashinahua language and culture. The Cashinahua language community currently consists of about 6000 members living in several villages with 10 indigenous homelands in the Brazilian state of Acre, and about 1600 members living in 37 villages in Peru. Most members of the speech community are bilingual, either speaking Portuguese or Spanish as a second and in some cases (in Brazil) as a first language. The project is funded for the years of 2006 to 2009 by the VolkswagenStiftung in the Documentation of Endangered Languages Programme. The linguist Eliane Camargo initiated her research among the Brazilian Cashinahua in 1989 and continued to work with the Peruvian Cashinahua in 1994. The anthropologist Philippe Erikson started to work in 1985 with the Matis, another Brazilian Pano group, and in 1993 with the Chacobo, a Pano group living in Bolivia. The linguist Sabine Reiter who previously worked in another Dobes-Project started her research among the Cashinahua in 2006.
		Cecilia, a specialist in He ika, performs traditional He ika chanting. This is a rare recording since Cecilia, who died some years ago, seems to have been the last female who had this specific traditional knowledge.
		The chanting is performed in Cashinahua.
		During the recording there is no interaction between participants, only Cecilia is singing.
		Cecilia was Marcelino Piñedo's mother. She was living in Balta and died in 1979. Cecilia was a renown specialist in traditional He ika chanting and seems to not have passed on her knowledge to the younger generation. According to informations given to Keifenheim, Cecilia was able to perform 240 hours of ritual chanting. She was able to sing the female ritual songs, the Ayahuasca songs and the Dewe, the latter two normally performed by men. She was "the Cashinahua's archive of cultural knowledge" with regard to chants. Apart from her, only one other person was able to perform as many as six Dewe: Nonato who emigrated to Brazil in 1979 where he established himself in one of the villages downriver from Santa Rosa. According to information given by his grandson Francisco Bardales he is still alive. Today (2008) - according to estimates of Camargo - she would be about 80 years old.
		The recording in stereo was originally made in 1978 with a tape recorder on a 60-min cassette (Melody C60, extra low noise) named "Cecilia 1 Chant 1". The cassette was digitalized in high quality (48kHz, 16bit) and transferred to a DVD named "Cashinahua Audiokassetten Teil I" at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig in January 2008. On the DVD the recording is named "Cecilia_1_A_stereo". There are some irregularities in the recording around 25 minutes. The two parts of the media file correspond to the two sides of the cassette. The sound of the original recording is low.
		The recording in stereo was originally made in 1978 with a tape recorder on a 60-min cassette (Melody C60, extra low noise) named "Cecilia 1 Chant 1". The cassette was digitalized in high quality (48kHz, 16bit) and transferred to a DVD named "Cashinahua Audiokassetten Teil I" at the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig in January 2008. On the DVD the recording is named "Cecilia_1_A_stereo". The two parts of the media file correspond to the two sides of the cassette. The sound of the original recording is low.
		The recording was made with a Sony-Taperecorder (type TC) which was made suitable for the tropical climate by golden plugs.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		DVDROM
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000C-3B2C-4
		CA
Publisher:		Eliane Camargo or Sabine Reiter
		Université de Paris X; Max-Planck-Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Subject:		Singing
		Individual song
		He ika
		Cashinahua language
Subject (ISO639):		cbs
Type:		audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000C-3B2C-4
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Barbara; Cecilia (singer). 1978. Eliane Camargo or Sabine Reiter.
Terms:		area_Americas country_PE iso639_cbs
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Peru
Area:		Americas