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Title:rebur_big4
Reburial: animal contributions
Documenting Waima'a, East Timor
Contributor:Maurício Belo/Sabu-Raku
Coverage:East Timor
Date:2004-11-18
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 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.
shot of the animals brought as contributions to exchange between lineages - part of them are slaughtered and eaten during the three day ceremony; the remaining ones will be redistributed among the different lineages in settling open debts
Acara penguburan mayat berjumlah 83 orang secara tradisional yang lajim dipanggil dalam bahasa waima'anya (Tura-mata, Tetum: hakoi mate) yang dilakkukan di rukun Derowake ini pada mulanya mereka harus membunuh banyak binatang seperti kerbau, babi,kuda dan kambing untuk menyelengarakan acara ini .
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:MPI537436
VolkswagenStiftung Az.: II/78058
Identifier (URI):http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser?openpath=MPI537436%23
Publisher:Nikolaus Himmelmann
Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of Linguistics
Subject:Unspecified
Waima'a language
Subject (ISO639):wmh
Type:video
audio

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DateStamp:  2010-02-17
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Citation: Maurício Belo/Sabu-Raku. 2004-11-18. Nikolaus Himmelmann.
Terms: area_Asia country_TL iso639_wmh

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Country: East Timor
Area: Asia


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