OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-BF5E-1

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Title:		Stepanova_ZA_Bochilikan_Etiken
		Bochilikan Etiken
Contributor:		BP
		Zoja Afanasevna
Coverage:		Russian Federation
Date:		2009-03-01
Description:		Zoja Stepanova tells a little fairy tale about 'Old man Bochilikan' and the fox who cheated him, and how Bochilikan's revenge turned the tips of hares' ears, and the tips of foxes' and snow partridges tails black.
		Ėven is a Northern Tungusic language spoken over a vast area of northeastern Siberia, from the Lena-Jana watershed in the west to the coast of the Oxotsk Sea, Chukotka, and Kamchatka in the east. Traditionally, Ėvens are nomadic hunters and reindeer pastoralists. Reindeer, both domesticated and wild, play an important role in their culture and ethnic self-identification. Reindeer herding, however, has become highly endangered throughout the Russian North, which has had extremely negative effects on the Ėvens' self-perception and social relations. Therefore the project will not only seek to document the language, but also the state of reindeer herding among the Ėvens in different regional settings. Due to the fragmentation of the Ėven communities, several dialects have emerged which are classified into two major dialectal groups: Western and Eastern. These dialects form a continuum with pronounced lack of mutual intelligibility between the extremes. So far, only two variants of one of the dozen or more dialects have been documented to a notable extent; these variants are also the least endangered ones. Other dialects are either on the verge of extinction or moribund. The project aims at documenting three highly endangered variants of Ėven that currently still have enough fluent speakers to make a comprehensive documentation feasible. These are the dialect spoken in the village of Sebjan-Küöl in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), which is the westernmost Ėven dialect still spoken; the dialect spoken in the village of Topolinoe in Yakutia, which also belongs to the Western dialect group, but is in an intermediate geographic location and the dialect spoken in the Bystraja district on Kamchatka representing the Eastern dialect group.
		The fairytale was recorded on March 1st 2009 at the kitchen table of Zoja Afanasevna Stepanova; we had sent away her daughter and grandson so that it was very nice and quiet. Only the collector was present. Zoja Afanasevna had written down the fairytale beforehand (in order to get it all right) and more or less read it off.
Format:		video/x-mpeg2
		image/jpeg
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-BF5E-1
Publisher:		Brigitte Pakendorf
		Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Subject:		Discourse
		Undetermined language
		Even
		Russian
Subject (ISO639):		und
Type:		video
		image
OLAC Info
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-BF5E-1
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
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Citation:		BP; Zoja Afanasevna. 2009-03-01. Brigitte Pakendorf.
Terms:		iso639_und
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