OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A9C6-C

Metadata
Title:		wake07-speeches-misc
		A Description and Documentation of Avatime
Contributor (recorder):		Sammy
Contributor (speaker):		Ganusah
		Ben
		Divine
		Godwin
Coverage:		Ghana
Date:		2008-09-26
Description:		This recording was made at a wake keeping the night before the funeral of Geoffrey Adjabeng, a clan leader. The men gathered at one of the meeting places in the village and spent the night giving speeches, singing and drinking. This event was recorded by Sammy. No outside observer was present. This recording includes some speeches and conversation. It has not been transcribed or translated.
		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).
		In this recording the son in law of Geoffrey Adjabeng, the man who died, is welcomed by Godwin Edzeani. He is introduced to the gathering by his 'father' in Vane, Ben Baku (people from outside who marry Avatimes usually are put in an Avatime family). At 4.20 a son of Geoffrey Adjabeng, Divine Adjabeng, speaks to thank all the people for helping the family with everything surrounding the death of his father. He offers gin to the people present. At 5.30 Tsiami Atsu Ganusah speaks and accepts the gifts.
		Only Avatime is spoken in this recording.
		Godwin Edzeani, Ben Baku, Divine Adjabeng and Atsu Ganusah all give speeches in this recording. Sammy records.
		Atsu Ganusah lives in Vane and is the linguist of Tsadome, the 'downtown' part of Vane. The linguist is the spokesperson of the chief.
		Ben Baku lives in Vane and attended the wake keeping that Sammy recorded. He is the assigned father of the son-in-law of Geoffrey Adjabeng, the man who died and for whom the wake keeping was held.
		Divine is a son of the man who died and for whom the wake-keeping was held. He lives in Tema (outside the Avatime area).
		Godwin is one of the people who were present at the wake-keeping we recorded.
		Sammy was one of our main informants for this project. He was born in Vane and has lived there most of his life. He has also spent some time in Accra. He speaks good English and Ewe.
		The recording was made using a Marantz PMD flash recorder. The recording is mono, 16 bit and 48 kHz.
		This is one of a series of recordings of a wake-keeping the night before a funeral. Here is a list of all recordings made at this event: - wake01-bring-body_WB - wake02-song - wake03-song - wake04-being-late_KAdj - wake05-conv-greetings - wake06-gather_AG - wake07-speeches-misc - wake08-songs-conv - wake09-song - wake10-song - wake11-song - wake12-women-come - wake13-conv-greetings - wake14-thanks - wake15-closing_AG The funeral itself has also been recorded, see 'funeral'.
Format:		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A9C6-C
Publisher:		Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
		Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:		Discourse
		wake_keeping, greeting
		Avatime language
Subject (ISO639):		avn
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-A9C6-C
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Ganusah (speaker); Ben (speaker); Divine (speaker); Godwin (speaker); Sammy (recorder). 2008-09-26. Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina.
Terms:		area_Africa country_GH iso639_avn
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Ghana
Area:		Africa