OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI514349

Metadata
Title:		27Oct0302S2
		Tsafiki Documentation Project
Contributor (translator):		Connie
Coverage:		Ecuador
Date:		2003-10-27
Description:		PU1 interviews his father about hunting guatusa and U1 explains and demonstrates how to make a whistle to call the guatusa. He also explains different methods for hunting guatusa and the 'tsotan' and other hunting implements from the old days.
		The Tsafiki Documentation Project is designed to document the language and culture of the Tsachila, who live in the western lowlands of Ecuador. The primary goal of the project is to collect a wide variety of video material on various aspects of the culture including procedural texts, traditional narratives, information about shamanism and traditional medicine as well as everyday conversation. A large number of the texts, 20-30 hours will be completely processed with Shoebox annotation files which will be combined with the media files in ELAN. The remaining texts will be transcribed and translated into Spanish as well as English. In addition an on-going lexical electronic database is being created as well as a grammatical description of the language.
		PU1 interviews his father, U1, concerning the hunting of guatusa. During the course of his description of different hunting techniques Jacinto makes and demonstrates the use of a guatusa whistle. They also discuss the use of the 'tsotan' and a hunting tool, 'eskopata', a type of catapult used in the old days.
		Jose Jacinto Aguavil Loche is the primary speaker and Tsafiki is the only language spoken on the tape.
		Connie Dickinson is the primary investigator of the project. She received a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Oregon and has been working with the Tsachila since 1994.
		PU1 is a native speaker of Tsafiki. He has worked for many years on various language projects concerned with Tsafiki. He began reading and writing Tsafiki as a child with the SIL linguist Bruce Moore, continued transcribing and translating Tsafiki in a project with Robert Mix for the Museo del Banco Central, Guayaquil and has been working with Connie Dickinson for several years. He has recently completed a high school degree and is fluent in Spanish and Tsafiki, can work with computers and has a great deal of knowledge about the Tsafiki culture. He is married to PS1 and has two children. He is the son of S1 and U1.
		U1 was around seventy-years-old at the time this video was taped. He was born in Tatsa and has lived in Congomita for most of his adult life. He is highly skilled in the traditional ways and even trained for a time with Abraham Calazacon, a famous shaman. He is married to S1 and has eight children and several grandchildren. He speaks the local dialect of Spanish but Tsafiki is clearly his dominant language.
		PU1 has worked as a transcriber and translator of Tsafiki from childhood. Tsafiki is his primary language.
Format:		video/mp4
		audio/x-wav
		video/x-mpeg1
		text/x-eaf+xml
		DVD
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI514349
Identifier (URI):		http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser?openpath=MPI514349%23
Publisher:		Connie Dickinson
		Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:		Discourse
		Interview
		Subsistence, Hunting
		Colorado language
		Tsafiki
Subject (ISO639):		cof
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:MPI514349
DateStamp:		2009-08-11
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Connie (translator). 2003-10-27. Connie Dickinson.
Terms:		area_Americas country_EC iso639_cof
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Ecuador
Area:		Americas