OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1118324

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Title:		before the burial
		Meslpeney dit au revoir au cadavre
		A usage-based grammar of Cuvok with focus on documenting the endangered social role of blacksmiths of the Tchouvok community
Coverage:		Cameroon
Date:		2015-11-28
Description:		the video shows the mourning daughter of the deceased person. she is called meslpeney in cuvok and she is the one chosen to lead the funeral ceremony. here in this vidoe she is wearing the clothes of the late father and she touching the recovered dead to say goodbye
		Cuvok is a Central Chadic language spoken in the Far North Region of Cameroon. Tchouvok traditional society pivots around blacksmiths, who play a number of other key social roles: doctor, metalworker, mortician, mind-reader, and midwife. With the introduction of Islam, Christianity and modernism, the knowledge possessed by the blacksmith is no longer transmitted to the younger generation. This documentation project is integrated into my PhD research, which aims at a usage-based grammatical description of Cuvok. Much of my corpus will be composed of video recordings. Ethnographic notes will complement my annotated texts.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		video/mp4
		text/x-eaf+xml
		text/x-pfsx+xml
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1118324
		0367
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1118324%23
Publisher:		NDOKOBAI Dadak
		The University of Maroua, Cameroon
Type:		Audio
		Video
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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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1118324
DateStamp:		2018-10-23
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		n.a. 2015-11-28. NDOKOBAI Dadak.