OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EEBD-D |
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Title: | Ancestor puja | |
ritual_02 | ||
Documentation of Chintang and Puma, two Kiranti languages of Eastern Nepal | ||
Contributor: | Arjun Rai | |
Pravin | ||
Coverage: | Nepal | |
Date: | 2005-03-24 | |
Description: | The session narrates about the importance of the ancestors. The way of offering them newly harvested fruits and also the way of showing respect to them in the ritual called khali. This session was recorded at Beltar. | |
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.http://www.cpdp.uzh.ch | ||
Ancestors memory, the way of worshipping, the steps to be taken when in the pitri puja, the role of the parents in this particualar situation etc are described in this session. | ||
The speaker has spoken the Puma language. Bantawa language is also used in some situation. | ||
PR is the young energetic Puma who has the good knowledge of the Puma language and culture. | ||
He is the research assistant for ethnography in the Puma team. | ||
PR is a consultant and a hard social worker of the Puma Community. | ||
Format: | DV | |
Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EEBD-D | |
CPDP | ||
Publisher: | Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel | |
University of Leipzig | ||
Subject: | Description | |
Unspecified | ||
Nepali (macrolanguage) | ||
Nepali | ||
Puma language | ||
Subject (ISO639): | nep | |
pum | ||
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Archive: | The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics | |
Description: | http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl | |
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OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000D-EEBD-D | |
DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
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Citation: | Arjun Rai; Pravin. 2005-03-24. Prof. Dr. Balthasar Bickel. | |
Terms: | area_Asia country_NP iso639_nep iso639_pum | |
Inferred Metadata | ||
Country: | Nepal | |
Area: | Asia |