OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI537239

Metadata
Title:		rebur_big9
		Reburial: Song liruai
		Documenting Waima'a, East Timor
Contributor:		Maurício Belo/Sabu-Raku
Coverage:		East Timor
Date:		2004-11-19
Description:		Reburial of remains of people who died during Indonesian occupation - major event in Derowake where 83 people are reburried - proceedings roughly identical to "normal" major traditional burial
		Waima'a is an endangered Austronesian language spoken in the Baucau district of East Timor. Goal of project is as comprehensive a documentation of communicative events and linguistic metaknowledge as possible. For further details on scope and format of documentation see link below.
		nextmorning around 4am: names of dead on poster, song liurai mata followed by weeping most people stay up all night during the event, some for all three nights the hosts, i.e. everyone from Derowake, is not allowed to take a bath for three days/as long as the ceremony lasts
		Liurai mata ini dimulai pada pukul o4.oo dengan menyebutkan nama mayat satu persatu yang dipimpim oleh sala satu tokoh yang pandai pada nada nada nyanian itu (Jose Ricardo)setelah itu per menangis.
		José Ricardo and other elders take a lead role here
		for further details see his own CV (session: Mauricio_CV) no mothers name because parents were baptized very late, he himself baptized at the age of 17? da Conceição = Saint, Aparício = Godfather (< Luís Aparício Guterres, primary school teachter at the time, new diretór distrito since November 2004 ) was nearly 27 years old when project started One grandparent of Maurício (mother of mother) from Bucoli Knows Malay and Tetum, says that he knows only little Makasae but seems to be able to follow most of everyday interactions; Tetum probably primary language these days, as indicated in language choice father (Raku-Bie) dead mother (Joana Belo/Kasa-Watu) old and nearly deaf, living on hill Kailale Oli which belongs to Parlamento but is very close to the border of Kaisidu; mother does not know any other lg in addition to Waima'a
Format:		video/mp4
		audio/x-wav
		video/x-mpeg2
		video/x-mpeg1
		DV
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI537239
		VolkswagenStiftung Az.: II/78058
Identifier (URI):		http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser?openpath=MPI537239%23
Publisher:		Nikolaus Himmelmann
		Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of Linguistics
Subject:		Unspecified
		Waima'a language
Subject (ISO639):		wmh
Type:		video
		audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive's IMDI portal
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI537239
DateStamp:		2010-02-17
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Maurício Belo/Sabu-Raku. 2004-11-19. Nikolaus Himmelmann.
Terms:		area_Asia country_TL iso639_wmh
Inferred Metadata
Country:		East Timor
Area:		Asia