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Title:wedd_reception1
Wedding Aldin: preparations for reception
Documenting Waima'a, East Timor
Contributor:Maurício Belo/Sabu-Raku
Contributor (speaker):Aldin
Coverage:East Timor
Date:2004-09-05
Description:Modern church wedding part 4: preparations for reception
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.
This is an attempt to cover a modern church wedding in its major parts. Preparing for the reception: greeting guests, getting food ready. Music from tape playing loud, hardly any speaking
Pulang dari gereja masuk tenda dan acara salam salaman di dalam tenda dan acara mau makan bersama
Bride = Rina (Watun’aru), grandchild of Lamberto who lives in Lamberto's place because her father (Graciano), the second husband of her mother has not yet paid/started to pay his bride price to Lamberto and hence lives in his place [this is often the case when the parents of the man are opposed to the marriage and hence refuse to enter into official negotiations with the relatives of the bride]
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
married to grandchild of Lamberto/father of spouse = Graciano MB calls him "krie" because of some aunt that was married into the Lamberto clan_________understands some Indonesian but does not speak it
Format:video/mp4
audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg2
video/x-mpeg1
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:MPI537597
VolkswagenStiftung Az.: II/78058
Identifier (URI):http://corpus1.mpi.nl/ds/imdi_browser?openpath=MPI537597%23
Publisher:Nikolaus Himmelmann
Ruhr-University Bochum, Department of Linguistics
Subject:Unspecified
Type:video
audio

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Citation: Maurício Belo/Sabu-Raku; Aldin (speaker). 2004-09-05. Nikolaus Himmelmann.


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