OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1275750

Metadata
Title:		Caijia_spirit_retrieving_Li_Xingzhi_20180629
		caijia0008
		Caijia: Cross-dialectal documentation of a highly endangered language in Guizhou Province of China
Contributor (consultant):		Xingzhi
Contributor (researcher):		Shanshan
Coverage:		Weijing
Date:		2018-06-29
Description:		This session concerns a superstious ritual performed when a child is ill. However, this cannot be transcribed or translated, since even the performer cannot explain most of the content. Length: 3'16''; Equipment: Zoom H4N; Recording condition: indoor;
		It is believed that the spirit of a sick child is not in his/her body. 'Spirit retrieving' is often performed when a child falls ill to call back his/her spirit so that the child can recover.
		Recorded by Lü Shanshan; performed by Li Xingzhi
		The birth date of Ms Li Xingzhi is not provided. Ms Li Xingzhi is a Caijia native speaker and learnt the language from her parents. However, there are no Caijia monolingual speakers. All of the Caijia speakers speaker the local Southwestern Mandarin dialect. Therefore, Southwestern Mandarin is also the mother tongue or primary language for all the Caijia speakers.
Format:		audio/x-wav
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1275750
		MDP0392
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1275750%23
Subject:		Ritual/religious texts
		Caijia
Type:		Audio
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:MPI1275750
DateStamp:		2019-07-19
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		Xingzhi (consultant); Shanshan (researcher). 2018-06-29. Endangered Languages Archive.