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Title:Dancing nettle song
Languages of Southwest Ambrym
Contributor:JD
von Prince
Coverage:Vanuatu
Date:2012-09-28
Description:This is a song that is sung in connection with a magic ritual in which a branch of a nettle tree is made to dance. A recording of the song and an explanation of the ritual is also linked to this bundle.
The goal of this project is the documentation of the three major languages in the Southwest of the pacific island of Ambrym, Vanuatu. The major objectives include the creation of both academic and local dictionaries, grammatical descriptions of the three languages as well as extensive recordings of the languages with an emphasis on language use in connection with specific cultural pracitces such as sand drawings, dances and songs.
The song is sung during a ritual which brings the branch of a nettle tree to life and makes it dance or fight with men.
The song was written down by JD.
JD is a middle-aged speaker from Baiap SDA.
Kilu von Prince has chosen the grammar of Daakaka to be the subject of her dissertation. Her purpose in the DoBeS project "Languages of West Ambrym" is to document and to help preserve the languages Daakaka and Ral kalein by collecting language data, establishing lexical databases and providing local communities with orthographies, dictionaries and printed accounts of traditional stories for use in education.
Format:audio/x-wav
image/tiff
application/pdf
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-B3F8-B
Publisher:Manfred Krifka
Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Berlin
Subject:Ritual/religious texts
song
Undetermined language
Unspecified
Subject (ISO639):und
Type:image

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Citation: JD; von Prince. 2012-09-28. Manfred Krifka.
Terms: iso639_und

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