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OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A60D-E |
| Metadata | ||
| Title: | outdooring08-oath | |
| A Description and Documentation of Avatime | ||
| Contributor (speaker): | Erasmus Kumladzei | |
| Osie Adza Tekpor VII | ||
| Coverage: | Ghana | |
| Date: | 2008-08-16 | |
| Description: | This video recording was made at the outdooring of the paramount chief of the Avatime area. See references for more general information about this event. In this recording an oath is sworn to the new paramount chief, and the new paramount chief also swears an oath. | |
| The Avatime project aims to describe and document Avatime. The researchers involved in this project are Rebecca Defina and Saskia van Putten. The project included fieldwork in Ghana in 2008 and was completed in 2009. Outcomes of the project are: (1) audio and video recordings of different genres, of which 13,5 hours have been transcribed and annotated, (2) an Avatime-English wordlist, (3) grammar notes and (4) two Master's theses, one on the expression of motion in Avatime (Saskia van Putten) and one on aspect and mood in Avatime (Rebecca Defina). | ||
| First, Erasmus Kumladzei swears an oath to Osie Adza Tekpor VII (beginning missing on the recording), then Adza Tekpor swears an oath to Erasmus Kumladzei. | ||
| The oaths are sworn in Avatime. | ||
| Erasmus Kumladzei and the paramount chief swear oaths. Saskia and Rebecca video recorded. Many spectators were present. | ||
| Erasmus Kumladzei is the linguist of the paramount chief of Avatime. | ||
| Osie Adza Tekpor VII is the paramount chief of the Avatime traditional area. He was outdoored on August 16, 2008 and installed on October 4, 2008. He was born in Vane, studied in Accra and stayed in Accra for work. | ||
| The recording was made using a JVC Everio digital video camera. The file is saved in MPEG2 format with 3400 kbps video encoding rate and 256 kbps audio encoding rate. The aspect ratio is 4:3 and the size of the video is 352 x 576. It is recorded in PAL format. | ||
| Several recordings were made at this event. These are: - outdooring-all - outdooring01 - outdooring02 - outdooring03-libation - outdooring04-libation - outdooring05-libation - outdooring06-oath - outdooring07-oath - outdooring08-oath - outdooring09-sheep Information about the process of installing a new chief can be found in - interview_SO-BB - installing_a_paramount_chief General information about the political organization of Avatime can be found in - political_organization_of_Avatime | ||
| Format: | video/x-mpeg2 | |
| Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A60D-E | |
| Publisher: | Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina | |
| Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | ||
| Subject: | Ritual/religious texts | |
| Unknown | ||
| Avatime language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | avn | |
| Type: | video | |
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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_00-0000-0000-0016-A60D-E | |
| DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
| Citation: | Erasmus Kumladzei (speaker); Osie Adza Tekpor VII (speaker). 2008-08-16. Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina. | |
| Terms: | area_Africa country_GH iso639_avn | |
Inferred Metadata | ||
| Country: | Ghana | |
| Area: | Africa | |