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oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1030905

Metadata
Title:babanki_illness-2
Multimedia Documentation of Babanki Ritual Speech
Contributor (consultant):Abraham
Lucy
Peter
Sharlot
Contributor (researcher):Pius
Coverage:Cameroon
Date:2014-08-30
Description:It is a consultation of ancestral spirits to seek help for healing a sick person.
This project documents the language of Babanki traditional ritual performances. Babanki is an endangered Grassfields language spoken in Babanki Tungo and Big Babanki, northwest of Cameroon. The language of rituals contains poetic forms, lexical items and grammatical structures not found in everyday Babanki speech. Unfortunately, these special speech forms are threatened by the strong influence of modernism and especially Christianity which have caused the number of people who still engage in ritual performances to drop drastically. Consequently, the Babanki cultural values inherent in the ritual performances are no longer cherished and transmitted to younger generations.
A child is ill and attempts to treat him have not been successful so his father consults the ancestors and requests their help to heal the child.
Format:video/mp4
Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1030905
SG0224
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1030905%23
Publisher:Pius W. Akumbu
University of Buea
Subject:Ritual/religious texts
Babanki language
English language
Subject (ISO639):bbk
eng
Type:Video

OLAC Info

Archive:  Endangered Languages Archive
Description:  http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OAI Info

OaiIdentifier:  oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1030905
DateStamp:  2017-01-23
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Search Info

Citation: Abraham (consultant); Lucy (consultant); Pius (researcher); Peter (consultant); Sharlot (consultant). 2014-08-30. Pius W. Akumbu.
Terms: area_Africa area_Europe country_CM country_GB iso639_bbk iso639_eng

Inferred Metadata

Country: CameroonUnited Kingdom
Area: AfricaEurope


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