OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1071969

Metadata
Title:		Talking about possums
		Y15_Canon_0204
		Audio-visual documentation of Meakambut ways of speaking
Contributor (researcher):		Darja
Contributor (speaker):		Yakalok
		Pasu
		Yuam
		Yukun
		Wandimbi
Coverage:		PNG
Date:		2015-06-21
Description:		Talking about possums at Pimbinjamba rock shelter
		The Meakambut are semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, numbering about 60, moving between camps and rock shelters in their mountainous territory in East Sepik Province in Papua New Guinea. As one of very few semi-nomadic groups in Melanesia, they are key for understanding the (socio)linguistic situation which would have prevailed before agriculture. Apart from basic word-lists there has been no prior research on the language. Using observational filming to supplement basic linguistic and ethnographic documentation, this project provides audio-visual documentation and analysis of a variety of Meakambut speech practices, embedded in rich ethnographic data.
		Arriving at a rock shelter the Meakambut often discuss what people at other shelters are eating, and remember what they killed and ate when they were last at this place
		age estimated fluent in TP, spent extended periods of time in other places. can understand a bit of Anday, a litttle less of Enga Learned a bit of Awiakay when assisting my research in Kanjimei quick learner, good language assistant, VERY communicative
		age estimated can understand a bit of Anday, Enga, Awiakay, fluent in TP
		age in 2015 only starting to speak
		age estimated Yukun can speak a little bit of Tok Pisin
		age estimated Wandimbi can undersatnad a little bit of Tok Pisin
		Darja's mother tongue is Slovene, her working languages are Tok Pisin and English. She is fluent in Tok Pisin and Awiakay, but has only basic knowledge of Meakambut. She's the researcher and filmmaker.
Format:		video/mp4
		text/plain
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1071969
		IPF0221
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1071969%23
Publisher:		Darja Hoenigman
		The Australian National University
Subject:		Conversation
		Meakambut
		Tok Pisin language
Subject (ISO639):		tpi
Type:		Video
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1071969
DateStamp:		2017-11-08
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Yakalok (speaker); Pasu (speaker); Yuam (speaker); Yukun (speaker); Wandimbi (speaker); Darja (researcher). 2015-06-21. Darja Hoenigman.
Terms:		area_Pacific country_PG iso639_tpi
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Papua New Guinea
Area:		Pacific