OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-7AF6-9

Metadata
Title:		About the women who sweep the church
		Barredoras
		Documenting Movima
Contributor:		Katharina Haude
Contributor (speaker):		EAO
Coverage:		Bolivia
Date:		2002-07-31
Description:		Length: Speaker and KH are alone, sitting in the yard. The fiesta is over, and it is the day when a cow is slaughtered for the six women that sweep the church (the "abadesas"). The speaker is up-to-date with the situation because her sister and her cousin belong to the group of sweeping women.
		Duración: La parlante y KH están sólas, sentadas en el patio. La fiesta se acabó y es el día en que se carnea una vaca para las seis mujeres que trabajan como barredoras en la iglesia, las ‚abadesas’. La parlante está al corriente con lo que pasa porque su hermana y su prima forman parte de las mujeres barredoras.
		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: 2:30 min The speaker tells about a problem that took place during the same day. The machetero dancers were angry at the women who sweep the church (among which is the speaker's sister), because they are not paid as much as the others. The priest decided that the six sweeping women, the abaresas, get one entire cow for themselves, while the others don't get anything.
		Movima is the only language used throughout this session.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		text/x-eaf+xml
		MD
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-7AF6-9
Publisher:		Katharina Haude
		University of Cologne, Department of Linguistics
Subject:		Discourse
		Narrative
		?
		Movima language
Subject (ISO639):		mzp
Type:		audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-7AF6-9
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		EAO (speaker); Katharina Haude. 2002-07-31. Katharina Haude.
Terms:		area_Americas country_BO iso639_mzp
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Bolivia
Area:		Americas