OLAC Record oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:crdo-AKR_RAT_OCTOPUS

Metadata
Title:		The Rat, the Hawk and the Octopus
Access Rights:		Freely available for non-commercial use
Alternative Title:		Le Rat, le Faucon et la Pieuvre
Conforms To (URI):		oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:crdo-dtd_archive
Contributor (consultant):		Vevuti Lele Moli
Contributor (depositor):		François, Alexandre
Contributor (researcher):		François, Alexandre
Contributor (speaker):		Lele Moli
Contributor (sponsor):		Typologie et universaux linguistiques
Date Available (W3CDTF):		2011-03-25
Date Issued (W3CDTF):		2011-03-25T09:21:19+01:00
Date Modified (W3CDTF):		2018-04-14T15:28:23+02:00
Description:		This tale is a long, pleasant narration of Mr Rat's misadventures with his fellow creatures: first, with animals of the air and especially the Hawk (Circus approximans); and then animals of the sea, above all the Octopus. This story consists of several parts: [1] the Rat is paddling in his canoe, but several birds harass him, wanting to embark with him (this gives the tale its song); the boat nearly sinks. [2] while on the boat, the Rat steals a piece of yam belonging to the Hawk; the Hawk takes his revenge by making the boat sink. [3] the Rat swims to escape death, and asks for the help of a shark, of the Turtle, of the Dolphin, and finally the Octopus accepts to carry him. But when the Octopus realises the Rat is laughing at him, he tries to kill him. [4] the last part is an etiological reflection about how this story accounts for nowadays rats and octopuses. We believe this version probably mingles more than one traditional plot: in particular, the first part [1] is a crescendo which should naturally result in the boat sinking, but the episode of the hawk [2] brings in a new suspense; finally, the story with the octopus could form a whole tale per se. The result of this assortment is a pleasant, poetic and lively tale, in which each animal is endowed with its own human-like psychology and world. The personification of animals is patent in the many details of the story (e.g. the rat is going to have lunch with his Mum, or the birds threaten him with telling everything to their Dad when he comes back home), but it is also visible linguistically, through their genitive and object marking.
Format (IMT):		text/xml
Identifier (URI):		http://cocoon.huma-num.fr/data/francois/masters/crdo-AKR_RAT_OCTOPUS.xml
		http://cocoon.huma-num.fr/exist/crdo/ark:/87895/1.5-167951
		http://hdl.handle.net/10670/1.wupsdn
Is Format Of (URI):		http://cocoon.huma-num.fr/exist/crdo/display/crdo-AKR_RAT_OCTOPUS
Is Part Of (URI):		oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:crdo-COLLECTION_LACITO
Is Referenced By:		François, Alexandre. 2002. Araki : A disappearing language of Vanuatu. Pacific Linguistics, 522. Canberra: Australian National University. xx + 355 pp. (pp.212)
Language:		English; Anglais
		Araki
Language (ISO639):		eng
		akr
License (URI):		http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Publisher:		Laboratoire de langues et civilisations à tradition orale
Requires (URI):		oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:crdo-AKR_RAT_OCTOPUS_SOUND
Rights:		Copyright (c) François, Alexandre
Subject:		Araki language
Subject (ISO639):		akr
Type (DCMI):		Text
Type (Discourse):		narrative
Type (OLAC):		primary_text
OLAC Info
Archive:		COllections de COrpus Oraux Numeriques (CoCoON ex-CRDO)
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:crdo.vjf.cnrs.fr:crdo-AKR_RAT_OCTOPUS
DateStamp:		2018-07-05
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Typologie et universaux linguistiques (sponsor); Lele Moli (speaker); Vevuti Lele Moli (consultant); François, Alexandre (researcher); François, Alexandre (depositor). 2011. Laboratoire de langues et civilisations à tradition orale.
Terms:		area_Europe area_Pacific country_GB country_VU dcmi_Text iso639_akr iso639_eng olac_narrative olac_primary_text
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Vanuatu
Area:		Pacific