OLAC Record: A Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions

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Title: Interaction among women during cassava paste preparation

Kell-Interaction-at-Work_01

A Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions

Contributor: MAKON

ASSOMO

Contributor (consultant): Nathalie

TONYE

Dorothée

KITOUGA

MBOCK

Contributor (researcher): NGUE UM

Coverage: Cameroon

Date: 2016-07-27

Description: This recording was performed on the occasion of a work group session, as part of the Women's Association's activities. This recording documents household activities, name cassava paste preparation. The preparation produces 'cassava sticks' (a form of cassava saucage) which are wrapped in special leaves. This activity entails coordination between different tasks, namely: harvesting of cassave tubers, cleaning and chopping of cassava tubers into smaller parts, soaking of cassava parts into water. Removal of cassava from water after three to five days; squeezing melted of cassava part, pounding, grinding, wrapping into leaves, boiling, streching of boiled cassava sticks. Harvesting, cleaning, chopping soaking, removal, and squeezing have been performed prior to this recording session. Given the quantity of cassava paste, distribution of tasks (pounding, grinding, wrapping, boiling, stretching) requires collaboration between many group members. Group work sessions are also conducive to gossiping, story telling and other entertaining activities.

The project to Document aspects of Bati language and oral traditions is an original idea of Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso, who had initially surveyed the Bati speech area as part of a pilot research project granted by the Ministry of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation of the Republic of Cameroon. Based on the results of this pilot research which have revealed a situation of critical endangerment of Bati language and ancestral practices, the idea to submit a major documentation project to ELDP has matured. The project has eventually been submitted during the 2015 funding round with Dr Emmanuel Ngué Um as Principal Investigator, and Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso as co-applicant. The project started in October 1st, 2015, and will run till the 30th of September in 2018.

This recording was performed on the occasion of a work group session, as part of the Women's Association's activities. This recording documents farming activities in which part of members of the Women's Association are affiliated. Farming is done on a grassland which is interspersed with stunted trees, most of which as subject to yearly burning from cattle rearers. According to the women, the land is not owned by anyone in particular. This part of the village is thereore public land, and open to anyone to cultivate. However, once a land parcel is cultivated, it temporally belongs to the individual who has cultivated it, until the farm has been completely harvested. Farming is done in an area which is located astray the inhabited village area. Each farm consists in a strech of sandy furrows of varying length and size, in which different seeds are planted. The main task during group work consists in ploughing the land with heavy duty hoes, equiped with high handles. From time to time, when ploughing is obstruded by a tree branch or root, machets are resorted to. This task has been performerd by the main researcher in the course of this recording session. Group work is organized on a weekly basis during the farming season; each member of the group benefits from a full day of work in a round. When the round is closed, rotation begins from the other end, on.

This session displays a melting pot of many language varieties, among which Kelleng seems to emerge as the dominant variety, based on statistics calculation (See Ngué Um, to appear). Other speech varieties include: Bisoo, Basaa, Baca, Eton, and French.

Gwladys Makon is a team research member for the Bati projet. She is enrolled in the PHD programme at the Department of African Languages and Linguistics. Makon is a PHD fellow for the Bati projet, and she is mainly concerned with providing a comprehensive grammatical description of Bati language, all three dialects inclusive. During her undergraduate study at the Department of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Yaoundé I, Gwladys Makon has red, among others, the followingn subjets: Introduction to general linguistics, phonetics, phonology (with special emphasis on Bantu languages), introduction to sociolinguistics, language teaching, language planning, etc.

Emmanuel Ngué Um is the Principal Investigator for the Bati project. He is mainly employed at the University of Yaoundé one where he holds the position of Senior Lectuer of Linguistics, in the Departement of Cameroonian Languages and Cultures at the Higher Teacher Training School. Ngué Um is also Associate Researcher at CERDOTOLA, where he is charged with the responsibility of Archive Manager for ALORA (Archive of Languages and Oral Resources of Africa).

Assomo Celestine Ghislaine is a PhD student who is enroled in the Linguistic program at the University of Yaoundé I, Department of African Languages and Linguistics. She has completed her gratuade program in the same Department, and later on graduated with a Master's Degree in descriptive Linguistics in 2015. Ghislaine Assomo is part of the research team working on the documentation of Bati language and Oral traditions. She works on the project on a part-time basis; the remaining part of her schedule being devoted to her PhD research, which deals with aspects of Multilingualism within the broader area covered by the overall Bati Canton.

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Publisher: Ngué Um Emmanuel

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Citation: Nathalie (consultant); TONYE (consultant); Dorothée (consultant); KITOUGA (consultant); MBOCK (consultant); MAKON; NGUE UM (researcher); ASSOMO. 2016-07-27. Ngué Um Emmanuel.

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Title:		Interaction among women during cassava paste preparation
		Kell-Interaction-at-Work_01
		A Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions
Contributor:		MAKON
Contributor:		ASSOMO
Contributor (consultant):		Nathalie
		TONYE
		Dorothée
		KITOUGA
		MBOCK
Contributor (researcher):		NGUE UM
Coverage:		Cameroon
Date:		2016-07-27
Description:		This recording was performed on the occasion of a work group session, as part of the Women's Association's activities. This recording documents household activities, name cassava paste preparation. The preparation produces 'cassava sticks' (a form of cassava saucage) which are wrapped in special leaves. This activity entails coordination between different tasks, namely: harvesting of cassave tubers, cleaning and chopping of cassava tubers into smaller parts, soaking of cassava parts into water. Removal of cassava from water after three to five days; squeezing melted of cassava part, pounding, grinding, wrapping into leaves, boiling, streching of boiled cassava sticks. Harvesting, cleaning, chopping soaking, removal, and squeezing have been performed prior to this recording session. Given the quantity of cassava paste, distribution of tasks (pounding, grinding, wrapping, boiling, stretching) requires collaboration between many group members. Group work sessions are also conducive to gossiping, story telling and other entertaining activities.
		The project to Document aspects of Bati language and oral traditions is an original idea of Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso, who had initially surveyed the Bati speech area as part of a pilot research project granted by the Ministry of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation of the Republic of Cameroon. Based on the results of this pilot research which have revealed a situation of critical endangerment of Bati language and ancestral practices, the idea to submit a major documentation project to ELDP has matured. The project has eventually been submitted during the 2015 funding round with Dr Emmanuel Ngué Um as Principal Investigator, and Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso as co-applicant. The project started in October 1st, 2015, and will run till the 30th of September in 2018.
		This recording was performed on the occasion of a work group session, as part of the Women's Association's activities. This recording documents farming activities in which part of members of the Women's Association are affiliated. Farming is done on a grassland which is interspersed with stunted trees, most of which as subject to yearly burning from cattle rearers. According to the women, the land is not owned by anyone in particular. This part of the village is thereore public land, and open to anyone to cultivate. However, once a land parcel is cultivated, it temporally belongs to the individual who has cultivated it, until the farm has been completely harvested. Farming is done in an area which is located astray the inhabited village area. Each farm consists in a strech of sandy furrows of varying length and size, in which different seeds are planted. The main task during group work consists in ploughing the land with heavy duty hoes, equiped with high handles. From time to time, when ploughing is obstruded by a tree branch or root, machets are resorted to. This task has been performerd by the main researcher in the course of this recording session. Group work is organized on a weekly basis during the farming season; each member of the group benefits from a full day of work in a round. When the round is closed, rotation begins from the other end, on.
		This session displays a melting pot of many language varieties, among which Kelleng seems to emerge as the dominant variety, based on statistics calculation (See Ngué Um, to appear). Other speech varieties include: Bisoo, Basaa, Baca, Eton, and French.
		Gwladys Makon is a team research member for the Bati projet. She is enrolled in the PHD programme at the Department of African Languages and Linguistics. Makon is a PHD fellow for the Bati projet, and she is mainly concerned with providing a comprehensive grammatical description of Bati language, all three dialects inclusive. During her undergraduate study at the Department of African Languages and Linguistics at the University of Yaoundé I, Gwladys Makon has red, among others, the followingn subjets: Introduction to general linguistics, phonetics, phonology (with special emphasis on Bantu languages), introduction to sociolinguistics, language teaching, language planning, etc.
		Emmanuel Ngué Um is the Principal Investigator for the Bati project. He is mainly employed at the University of Yaoundé one where he holds the position of Senior Lectuer of Linguistics, in the Departement of Cameroonian Languages and Cultures at the Higher Teacher Training School. Ngué Um is also Associate Researcher at CERDOTOLA, where he is charged with the responsibility of Archive Manager for ALORA (Archive of Languages and Oral Resources of Africa).
		Assomo Celestine Ghislaine is a PhD student who is enroled in the Linguistic program at the University of Yaoundé I, Department of African Languages and Linguistics. She has completed her gratuade program in the same Department, and later on graduated with a Master's Degree in descriptive Linguistics in 2015. Ghislaine Assomo is part of the research team working on the documentation of Bati language and Oral traditions. She works on the project on a part-time basis; the remaining part of her schedule being devoted to her PhD research, which deals with aspects of Multilingualism within the broader area covered by the overall Bati Canton.
Format:		video/mp4
		image/jpeg
		audio/x-wav
		text/x-eaf+xml
		text/x-pfsx+xml
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1067383
Identifier:		MDP0332
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1067383%23
Publisher:		Ngué Um Emmanuel
Publisher:		International Center for Research and Documentation on African Traditions and Languages (CERDOTOLA)
Subject:		Discourse
		Conversation
		Gossip
Type:		Video
		Image
		Audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1067383
DateStamp:		2018-01-11
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Nathalie (consultant); TONYE (consultant); Dorothée (consultant); KITOUGA (consultant); MBOCK (consultant); MAKON; NGUE UM (researcher); ASSOMO. 2016-07-27. Ngué Um Emmanuel.