OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-A9C8-2

Metadata
Title:		wake05-conv-greetings
		A Description and Documentation of Avatime
Contributor (interviewer):		Sammy
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. In this recording, the men are singing, there is some conversation and some greetings take place. This recording 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 people are singing a song in a language that is not Avatime (most likely Twi) and then there is some informal conversation. Sammy can be heard speaking here, but I do not know who the other speakers are. At about 2 minutes and 10 seconds in the recording somebody arrives and greetings are exchanged.
		The conversation and greetings take place in Avatime. The song that is sung in the beginning is probably in Twi.
		Sammy records and also takes part in the conversation. Several other people that I cannot identify speak on this recording.
		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-A9C8-2
Publisher:		Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina
		Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:		Discourse
		Conversation
		wake_keeping, greeting
		Akan language
		Twi
		Avatime language
Subject (ISO639):		aka
		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-A9C8-2
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Sammy (interviewer). 2008-09-26. Saskia van Putten and Rebecca Defina.
Terms:		area_Africa country_GH iso639_aka iso639_avn
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Ghana
Area:		Africa