OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1073990

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Title:		First interview session held in Nyambat on Bati's cultural life
		Nya-Anthropology-01
		Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions
Contributor (consultant):		LIYEB BWOSSI
		MBESSI MAKONDO
Contributor (researcher):		NGUE UM
Coverage:		Cameroon
Date:		2016-08-03
Description:		The interview is monitored by a local research assistant (Mbessi Makondo Gilbert) who has been trained in questionnaire administration and interview monitoring. As with other interview sessions, open questions have been prepared and handed down to the research assistant. Questions evolve around: the history of Bati people (Mbangele), the relationship with their closer neighbors, the relationship between Nyambat community and the other Bati communities, religious pratices, the history and symbolism of Mbombole, cultural practices such as mariage, birth, and death.
		The documentation of Bati language and oral traditions aims at creating a repository of language and cultural data representative of the five varieties spoken in the Bati Canton, in the Littoral region of Cameroon. Number of Bati speakers is estimated at 800. The resulting corpus will lay the empirical ground for cross-dialectal studies in linguistics and others fields in the humanities such as anthropology, which will better inform on the bi-vectorial dynamics of Bati language and identity, torn as they are, between the Mbam and the Basaa groups respectively.
		The language repertoire in use during the recording session includes: Basaa, Bati (both Nyambat and Kelleng varieties), and French. There are casual shifts to, or metalinguistic use of Bisoo in the course of the interview.
		Liyep André is a retired worker who has worked in a sugar cane company based in Mbanjock in the Center region of Cameroon. He is married and a father of many children. He socially enjoys a prestigeous rank due to his professional past, but sometimes feels frustrated with regard to traditional ruling practices. Being an active christian believer, he bemoans the corruption of local traditional custodians, who take advantage of the power associated with the exercise of ancestral priesthood (Mbog), for their personal benefit. Liyep André tends therefore to be critical of the traditional ruling authorities, whether they act as village chiefs or traditional priests.
		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).
		Mbessi Makondo Gilbert as acted as one of the key informants for the research team during the first year of the project. Due to his extensive multilingualism coupled with a high sense of public network and relations, he has assisted the research team in most of their whereabouts throughout the various consultants who have agreed to lend themselves to research exercises. In some cases, Mbessi Gilbert has acted as the interviewer. This approach has been privileged in surveys dealing with anthropological, cultural and religous aspects. He had been trained by the research team in the monitoring of interviews, and in questionnaire administration, and has proven to be a talented and committed research assistant.
Format:		video/mp4
		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1073990
		MDP 0332
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1073990%23
Publisher:		Emmanuel Ngue Um
		International Center for Research and Documentation on African Traditions and Languages CERDOTOLA
Subject:		Interview
		semi-guided interview
		Unspecified
Type:		Video
		Audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1073990
DateStamp:		2019-04-17
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Citation:		LIYEB BWOSSI (consultant); NGUE UM (researcher); MBESSI MAKONDO (consultant). 2016-08-03. Emmanuel Ngue Um.