OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-001B-86E9-D

Metadata
Title:		About the speaker's grandfather, who was rich, but couldn't read and write
		Abuelo-GLOSS
		Documenting Movima
Contributor:		Katharina Haude
Contributor (speaker):		EAO
Coverage:		Bolivia
Date:		2002-07-30
Description:		After having briefly spoken about a person that lives in El Perú (see Dokoylakwa), is very intelligent, but can't read and write, speaker talks about her grandfather, who was like that as well. She has grown up with her grandfather, who was her mother's father, but he isn't alive anymore (date of death not known, apparently many years ago). This narrative is closely related to "AROS" and "AROS II" (two versions of the same text), where the speaker tells about how her mother has bought earrings for her when she was small and which she had narrated a few days before.
		The Movima Archive Movima is a genetically unclassified language spoken in the so-called Moxos region in the savannahs of the Bolivian Amazon area. It is still spoken by more than 1,000 people (1,452 in 1996). Most speakers are over 50 years old and bilingual in Spanish. There are only very few children who still learn the language, while children are usually raised in Spanish only. Today, efforts are being made to implement the language at schools. The village Santa Ana del Yacuma, the center of the Movima-speaking area with approximately 12,000 inhabitants, was founded approximately in 1708 by the Jesuits. The Jesuits also converted the the Movima people to Catholicism. There does not seem to be an observable trace of Precolumbian culture (traditions, mythology) left. It is therefore quite striking that the Movimas have kept their native language until today. Since the language is getting lost rapidly, one goal of our data collection is to gather authobiographical information from its last fluent speakers. At the same time, as much as possible other text types were collected, such as dialogues, procedural texts, descriptions etc. The village „fiesta“ on July 26th is culturally very important. It includes processions, bull fights, and dancing. Many people from the country visit the village, and the Movima language is spoken a lot. Therefore much of the data has to do with the fiesta. The Movima project contains data collected between 2001 and 2008 in Santa Ana del Yacuma, Bolivia. Between 2001 and 2004, they were collected by Katharina Haude, then Nijmegen University. Since 2006, they were collected by Silke Beuse and Katharina Haude within the DoBeS project at the University of Cologne. Field work was carried out during the dry season between June and October each year.
		Length: 4:10 min Speaker talks about her grandfather who couldn't read nor write but who was nonetheless a wealthy man. He had never attended school and had become a wealthy cattle-owner. His illiteracy was no disadvantage to him. The speaker's mother (the speaker's grandfather's daughter) wanted a pair of earrings, so her father sold one cow in order to buy them. And now the speaker has lost this pair of earrings and she will not put on other ones.
		Movima is the only language used throughout this session.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		text/x-eaf+xml
		MD
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-001B-86E9-D
Publisher:		Katharina Haude
		University of Cologne, Department of Linguistics
Subject:		Discourse
		Narrative
		story personal
		Movima language
		Mocoví language
		Movima
Subject (ISO639):		mzp
		moc
Type:		audio
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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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-001B-86E9-D
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		EAO (speaker); Katharina Haude. 2002-07-30. Katharina Haude.
Terms:		area_Americas country_AR country_BO iso639_moc iso639_mzp
Inferred Metadata
Country:		ArgentinaBolivia
Area:		Americas