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Title:Touring the cemetery - Una vuelta en el camposanto
Rosario_Panteon
Lowland Chontal Documentation
Contributor:loretta
Coverage:Mexico
Date:2005-09-25
Description:Unedited video tour of the public cemetery in San Pedro Huamelula. The recording is silent and so shaky that one gets truly seasick. It is recommended to play the video in slow motion. The camera follows two members of a local family as they bring fresh greenery and flowers to some family graves. They are Mari Espinoza Raymundo and niece Cruz Márilin González Vásquez. They refresh the graves of Mari's brother David, mother Natalia, and father Alberto, among others. Alberto Espinoza López was among the first consultants I worked with on Chontal documentation, starting in 1997, and was the father of two consultants still active in the documentation project. We always referred to him as my boyfriend.
Video sin editar sobre la celebración de la Virgen del Rosario en San Pedro Huamelula. Aquí figura una vuelta alrededor del camposanto, o panteón público. La grabación no tiene audio y se mueve tanto que uno de veras se marea. Se aconseja ver el video en slo-mo, a velocidad decelerada. La cámera sigue a dos miembros de una familia del pueblo mientas arreglan flores frescas en algunas sepulturas familiares. Ellas son Mari Espinoza Raymundo y su sobrina Cruz Márilin González Vásquez. Ellas refrescan los sitios de un hermano de Mari, que se llamaba David, el de su madre Natalia, y el de su padre Alberto, entre otros. Alberto Espinoza López era de los primeros que trabajaron conmigo en la documentación del chontal, empezando en 1997, y fue el padre de dos consultantes todavía activas en el proyecto de documentación. Siempre lo llamábamos mi novio.
Lowland Chontal Language and Cultural Heritage: A Documentation Project in the district of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. The Lowland Chontal Language and Cultural Heritage Project is a three-year-documentation project (2004-2007), funded by the Volkswagen Foundation (Grant II/80 114) and hosted by the Section of Mesoamerican Studies, Archaeological Institute of the University of Hamburg. The goals of the project are both linguistic and anthropological, with principal investigators Loretta O'Connor (linguist) and Peter Kroefges (anthropologist). These goals include (1) a Chontal-English-Spanish dictionary, (2) a comprehensive description of the grammar of Lowland Chontal, (3) a documentaion 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 Nijmegen (2002-2004). It also contains data of the archaeological fieldwork (2001) that formed part of the dissertation by Kroefges, and was funded by the Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamericanist Studies, Inc. (FAMSI), Florida, and the University at Albany-SUNY. The UNESCO genereously provided additional funding in 2004.
Format:DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EE8E-B
Volkwagen Grant II/80 114
Publisher:Loretta O'Connor
University of Hamburg
Subject:Fiesta
Virgen del Rosario
Video tour of cemetery
Spanish language
Lowland Oaxaca Chontal language
Chontal de Oaxaca - Costa
English language
Subject (ISO639):spa
clo
eng

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