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Title:yam counting ceremony
tci20100925
Morehead: Languages of Southern New Guinea
Coverage:Papua New Guinea
Date:2010-09-25
Description:this is a recording of a public yam counting ceremony that took place in Rouku in preparation of wedding. The wedding and the feast took place in Ngaraita in 2010. there are no recordings of the exchange marriage ceremony. This was a preparatory counting of that part of the crop to be contributed by different clans from Rouku. More was to be added two days later when the crop was transported by truck to Morehead and other clans from the Farem/Rouku people added their share.
This project focuses on collecting multimedia documentation of multiple undescribed Papuan languages – Nen and Nambu (Morehead-Maro) and Kmntso (Tonda). Other nearby languages will have varrying degrees of description, including Idi, Nama, and Neme. All of these languages belong to an almost completely unknown family in Southern New Guinea. Based at the Australian National University in Canberra, plus collaborations with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, and the PNG National Herbarium, the project will embed a German PhD student (Christian Döhler) in a team including a seasoned field linguist (Nick Evans) and a post-doc (Julia Colleen Miller), two Germany-based typologists (Bernard Comrie and Volker Gast) from the FAUST (Future Archive User Simulation Team), plus participation on targeted fieldtrips by ethnobiologist Chris Healey (ANU) and botanist Kipiro Damas (PNG National Herbarium, Madang). Particular foci of the documentation will be the natural world (especially ethnobotany and ethnoornithology), swidden cultivation, fire management and ethnoecology, mythology, auto-ethnography, ethnomathematics, and microvariation in language use in a situation of daily multilingualism.nichola
kómnzo
Format:video/x-mpeg2
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-001E-0C17-8
Publisher:Professor Nicholas Evans
The Australian National University
Subject:public ceremony, discourse
yam counting
Wára language
Kómnzo
Subject (ISO639):tci
Type:video

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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-001E-0C17-8
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Citation: n.a. 2010-09-25. Professor Nicholas Evans.
Terms: area_Pacific country_PG iso639_tci

Inferred Metadata

Country: Papua New Guinea
Area: Pacific


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