OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI1085491

Metadata
Title:		Shamans
		Documentation and desription of Lokono
Contributor (consultant):		Egnatius
Coverage:		Suriname
Date:		2009-12-10
Description:		Egnatius talking about how one becomes a shaman and what are the dangers of being one.
		This project aims at creating a lasting record of multimedia texts documenting the speech of the Lokono, the speakers of a moribund Arawakan language. Lokono is still spoken by few elderly members of the communities in French Guiana, Suriname, Guyana and Venezuela. However, the geographical proximity of the Lokono settlements to the urban and coastal Creole settlements, exposes them to their constant influence. Speaking mostly the official language or the creole lingua franca, the non-Amerindian communities propel the process of linguistic and cultural erosion among the Lokono. In cooperation with the Lokono communities, we intend to document and describe the Lokono language, focusing on such aspects as dialectal differences, the grammar of space and the native terminology for the local fauna and flora. The outcomes of the project will include a collection of audio-visual recordings, a publication on the perception and expression of space in Lokono and a lexicographical publication on the indigenous knowledge of the local plants and animals.
Format:		video/mp4
		video/x-mpeg1
		audio/x-wav
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI1085491
Identifier (URI):		http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser?openpath=MPI1085491%23
Publisher:		Konrad Rybka
		Universiteit van Amsterdam
Subject:		Lokono
Type:		video
		audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive's IMDI portal
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:MPI1085491
DateStamp:		2010-09-10
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Egnatius (consultant). 2009-12-10. Konrad Rybka.