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Title:How a jaguar almost killed a dog
Tigre y perro-GLOSSED
Documenting Movima
Contributor:Katharina Haude
Contributor (speaker):EAO
Coverage:Bolivia
Date:2002-07-20
Description:Recorded during an elicitation session. It is an audio recording, but there were many gestures. The text was re-checked in 2008 with several speakers, including this one, who retells the story in more detail and with the video camera.
Grabado durante una sesión de elicitación. Se trata de una grabación audio pero contiene muchos gestos. El texto fué re-comprobado en el 2008 con varios hablantes incluso el hablante original que recuenta el cuento con más detalles.
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: 1:50 min The speaker tells the story how they onced went walking in the forest with her dogs and met an angry jaguar. The dogs encircled the jaguar and they were hissing at each other and started to fight. The jaguar caught one of the dogs but didn't manage to really hurt him. Then the father of her children came and shot the jaguar in the ear. The dog came free unharmed.
Movima is the only language used throughout this session.
Format:audio/x-wav
text/x-eaf+xml
MD
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-7B7B-0
Publisher:Katharina Haude
University of Cologne, Department of Linguistics
Subject:Discourse
Narrative
personal anecdote
Movima language
Subject (ISO639):mzp
Type:audio

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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-7B7B-0
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Citation: EAO (speaker); Katharina Haude. 2002-07-20. Katharina Haude.
Terms: area_Americas country_BO iso639_mzp

Inferred Metadata

Country: Bolivia
Area: Americas


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