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Title:Unloading Wood at Puerto Junín II
GCM_150706
Documenting Movima
Contributor:GCM
Beuse
Contributor (interviewer):Katharina Haude
Coverage:Bolivia
Date:2006-07-15
Description:Length: 00:00:34.839 People are unloading wood from a boat at the Yacuma river at Puerto Yunin. The speaker is not shown in the recording.
Duración: 00:00:34.839 Hay gente que está desembarcando leño de un barco en el Puerto Junin del río Yacuma. En el video no se ve a la persona hablando.
The Movima Archive Movima is a genetically unclassified language spoken in the so-called Moxos region in the savannahs of the Bolivian Amazon area. It is still spoken by more than 1,000 people (1,452 in 1996). Most speakers are over 50 years old and bilingual in Spanish. There are only very few children who still learn the language, while children are usually raised in Spanish only. Today, efforts are being made to implement the language at schools. The village Santa Ana del Yacuma, the center of the Movima-speaking area with approximately 12,000 inhabitants, was founded approximately in 1708 by the Jesuits. The Jesuits also converted the the Movima people to Catholicism. There does not seem to be an observable trace of Precolumbian culture (traditions, mythology) left. It is therefore quite striking that the Movimas have kept their native language until today. Since the language is getting lost rapidly, one goal of our data collection is to gather authobiographical information from its last fluent speakers. At the same time, as much as possible other text types were collected, such as dialogues, procedural texts, descriptions etc. The village „fiesta“ on July 26th is culturally very important. It includes processions, bull fights, and dancing. Many people from the country visit the village, and the Movima language is spoken a lot. Therefore much of the data has to do with the fiesta. The Movima project contains data collected between 2001 and 2008 in Santa Ana del Yacuma, Bolivia. Between 2001 and 2004, they were collected by Katharina Haude, then Nijmegen University. Since 2006, they were collected by Silke Beuse and Katharina Haude within the DoBeS project at the University of Cologne. Field work was carried out during the dry season between June and October each year.
Length: 00:00:34.839 The speaker (invisible) describes where the wood was cut (by the Apere river, quite far away) and that another woman (LC, standing next by) accompanies the workers to cook for them.
Movima is the only language used.
Format:video/x-mpeg1
audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg2
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-7ADF-5
Publisher:Katharina Haude
University of Cologne, Department of Linguistics
Subject:Discourse
Narrative
Unspecified
Movima language
Subject (ISO639):mzp
Type:video
audio

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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-7ADF-5
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Citation: Katharina Haude (interviewer); GCM; Beuse. 2006-07-15. Katharina Haude.
Terms: area_Americas country_BO iso639_mzp

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Country: Bolivia
Area: Americas


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