OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI1451603

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Title:		A daughter's homecoming
		Homecoming
		The Traditional Songs And Poetry Of Upper Assam – A Multifaceted Linguistic and Ethnographic Documentation of the Tangsa, Tai and Singpho Communities in Margherita, Northeast India
Contributor:		Meenaxi Barkataki
		Kaman
Contributor (consultant):		Mrs. Rengya Tonglum
		Mia-ong
		Lukam Tonglum (Loekyam Cholim is his Cholim name; Lukam is the name used by other Tangsa groups)
		Mebang
Date:		2010-12-27
Description:		This video shows the activities that took place in the Lukam Tonglum household when his daughter Mia-ong who had eloped with her Christian boy-friend came home for the first time. Miaong and her husband Khum-ko (in the army posted in Kashmir now) arrived with a brother-in-law around 3 p.m. and were immediatey drawn into a whirl of activity. Lots of people from all over arrived as if on cue and very soon the whole house was swarming with people and activity. After the brother-in-law left after a quick meal, the two of them were taken near the main post and a rhim-rhim was done, by Kaxom and Lukam. They made a gift of some flowers, a bottle of whisky and some money. Lukam had arranged for a pig to be killed and during the time it took to kill and cook the pig (Koman leading the group), everyone present, numbering more than a hundred including the many children, got drunk on rice wine and whisky. Dinner was served around 8 p.m. The electricity kept coming and going and the people seemed to manage. The meal was just rice and meat. Lukam’s elder daughters stayed.
		This project contains linguistic, musicalogical, ethnographic and other cultural information about three communities in Upper Assam: Singpho, Tai and Tangsa. The recordings and analyses have been done by Stephen Morey, together with Palash Kumar Nath (Gauhati University), Juergen Schoepf (Phonogram Archiv, Vienna), Meenaxi Bhattacharjee, Chaichuen Khamdaengyodtai (Rajabhat University, Chiang Mai), Zeenat Tabassum (Gauhati University), Karabi Mazumder (Gauhati University), Krishna Boro (Gauhati University). The key aims of the project were • to provide a comprehensive documentation of the varieties of Tangsa language spoken in the Margherita Subdivision of Upper Assam, India, • to provide a comprehensive documentation of the traditional songs, and poetry of three endangered language communities in the Margherita Subdivision: the Tangsa and Singpho (both Tibeto-Burman) and the Tai (Tai-Kadai), including a study of Tai traditional manuscripts, which are highly relevant for language and culture maintenance among the Tai. Within each of these communities there is considerable linguistic and cultural diversity, so all the files have been divided up and named according to this system: Tai SDM01 Phake SDM02 Aiton SDM03 Khamyang SDM04 Ahom SDM05 Khamti Singpho SDM07 Turung SDM08 Numhpuk Hkawng SDM09 Diyun Hkawng SDM10 Tieng Hkawng Tangsa SDM11 Youngkuk SDM12 Cholim SDM13 Kimsing SDM14 Tikhak SDM15 Lochhang SDM16 Ngaimong SDM17 Maitai SDM18 Shechhyv SDM19 Mossang SDM20 Khvlak SDM21 Lakkai SDM22 Lungri SDM23 Hakhun SDM24 Lungkhe SDM25 Ronrang SDM26 Sangte SDM27 Sangwal SDM28 Halang SDM29 Haseng SDM30 Morang SDM31 Moklum
		Lukam Tonglum (Loekyam Cholim) is the leader of the Cholim community in Kharang Kong. He came from Burma in the 1950s to join his brother who had already set up in Kharang Kong. He is very knowledgeable about all aspects of Cholim culture.
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		audio/x-wav
		video/x-mpeg1
		video/x-mpeg2
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI1451603
Identifier (URI):		http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser?openpath=MPI1451603%23
Publisher:		Stephen Morey
		Research Centre for Linguistic Typology, La Trobe University
Subject:		Ritual and festive activity
		related to the homecoming of a daughter for the first time after her marriage
Type:		image
		audio
		video
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive's IMDI portal
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI1451603
DateStamp:		2012-01-13
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Search Info
Citation:		Meenaxi Barkataki; Mrs. Rengya Tonglum (consultant); Mia-ong (consultant); Lukam Tonglum (Loekyam Cholim is his Cholim name; Lukam is the name used by other Tangsa groups) (consultant); Mebang (consultant); Kaman. 2010-12-27. Stephen Morey.