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OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A60F-A |
| Metadata | ||
| Title: | outdooring06-oath | |
| A Description and Documentation of Avatime | ||
| Contributor: | Yao | |
| Contributor (annotator): | Saskia | |
| Contributor (speaker): | Adzavi Mensah Stanilous | |
| 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. It has been transcribed and translated by Yao and annotated by Saskia. | |
| 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, Adzavi Mensah Stanilous swears an oath to Kwame Harry Felix Adorbor, the new paramount chief. Then the new paramount chief swears an oath to Adzavi Mensah Stanilous. | ||
| The oaths are sworn in Avatime. | ||
| Adzavi Mensah Stanilous and the paramount chief swear oaths. Saskia and Rebecca video recorded. Many spectators were present. Fo Yao and Saskia transcribed and translated the recording. | ||
| Adzavi Mensah Stanilous might have been the stool father of Adzatekpor the sixth (I have conflicting information, need to check this, see also outdooring06-oath), the former paramount chief. His age is a guess. He is the uncle of the incoming Adzatekpor the seventh and because his Adzatekpor's father is dead he acts in his place during this ceremony. | ||
| Fo Yao was one of our main consultants. He helped us transcribe and translate texts, gave us information about cultural practises and helped us in many long elicitation sessions. He was born in Vane and worked as a teacher before he retired. Sadly, he passed away in October 2009. | ||
| Saskia van Putten is one of the researchers in this project. She did her bachelor in Languages and Cultures of Africa and her research master in Linguistics, both at Leiden University. She started PhD studies at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in 2009. Saskia grew up and still lives in the Netherlands. | ||
| 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. | ||
| Audio extracted from video outdooring06-oath.mpg | ||
| 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 | |
| audio/x-wav | ||
| text/x-eaf+xml | ||
| text/x-toolbox-text | ||
| Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A60F-A | |
| Publisher: | Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina | |
| Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics | ||
| Subject: | Ritual/religious texts | |
| Unknown | ||
| Avatime language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | avn | |
| Type: | video | |
| audio | ||
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| 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 | |
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| OaiIdentifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A60F-A | |
| DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
| GetRecord: | OAI-PMH request for simple DC format | |
Search Info | ||
| Citation: | Adzavi Mensah Stanilous (speaker); Yao; Saskia (annotator); 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 | |