OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000F-DAF5-A

Metadata
Title:		Top09_ZKM_2_4a
		Top09_ZKM_2.4_Hebdjek_Festival_1
Contributor (annotator):		Dejan Matic
		Alexandra Lavrillier
Contributor (author):		Khristina Mikhailovna
Contributor (interviewer):		Alexandra Lavrillier
		Dejan Matic
Coverage:		Russian Federation
Date:		2009-06-12
Description:		The session took place in the village of Topolinoe, central Yakutia, in the house of ZKM by Alexandra Lavrillier and Dejan Matic. The recording was done in mono with a Marantz recorder and a Sony handycam on videotape. The videofilm was transferred to the computer as .avi and later converted to mpeg2.
		Ėven is a Northern Tungusic language spoken over a vast area of northeastern Siberia, from the Lena-Jana watershed in the west to the coast of the Oxotsk Sea, Chukotka, and Kamchatka in the east. Traditionally, Ėvens are nomadic hunters and reindeer pastoralists. Reindeer, both domesticated and wild, play an important role in their culture and ethnic self-identification. Reindeer herding, however, has become highly endangered throughout the Russian North, which has had extremely negative effects on the Ėvens' self-perception and social relations. Therefore the project will not only seek to document the language, but also the state of reindeer herding among the Ėvens in different regional settings. Due to the fragmentation of the Ėven communities, several dialects have emerged which are classified into two major dialectal groups: Western and Eastern. These dialects form a continuum with pronounced lack of mutual intelligibility between the extremes. So far, only two variants of one of the dozen or more dialects have been documented to a notable extent; these variants are also the least endangered ones. Other dialects are either on the verge of extinction or moribund. The project aims at documenting three highly endangered variants of Ėven that currently still have enough fluent speakers to make a comprehensive documentation feasible. These are the dialect spoken in the village of Sebjan-Küöl in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), which is the westernmost Ėven dialect still spoken; the dialect spoken in the village of Topolinoe in Yakutia, which also belongs to the Western dialect group, but is in an intermediate geographic location and the dialect spoken in the Bystraja district on Kamchatka representing the Eastern dialect group.
		ZKM tells everything that comes to her mind about hedje, the traditional Even dance. The general description of hedje is intertwined with the anecdotes from ZKM's life concerning singing and music. She also explains the Even custom of feeding the fire, emphasising the importance of fumigation with and without fat, as well as the custom of hanging ribbons on trees. The latter is illustrated with a story about cursed places she recalls from her childhood, including the motive of shaman graves and the attack from the spirits of the dead. In the story, the type of ritual behaviour called "olan" is illustrated, as well as the importance of the hunting ritual instrument of long knife (gid). A ritual of adoption by fire spirits and the ritual fumigation of a new-born baby is also explained.
Format:		video/x-mpeg2
		audio/x-wav
		text/x-pfsx+xml
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000F-DAF5-A
Publisher:		Dejan Matic & Alexandra Lavrillier
		Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Subject:		Discourse
		Unspecified
		Even language
		Russian language
Subject (ISO639):		eve
		rus
Type:		video
		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_00-0000-0000-000F-DAF5-A
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Khristina Mikhailovna. 2009-06-12. Dejan Matic & Alexandra Lavrillier.
Terms:		area_Europe country_RU iso639_eve iso639_rus
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Russian Federation
Area:		Europe