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Metadata
Title:		The etungi or uluri
		Etungi
		Documentatio of the Upper Xingu Carib language or Kuikuro
Contributor:		Bruna Franchetto
		Tapualu
Coverage:		Brazil
Date:		2001-07-26
Description:		The session was created by the researcher (BF) asking to a Kalapalo woman, Tapualu , to participate in the video documentation project with some contribution on the kuikuro traditional material culture. After the session named "Tukuti", BF suggested that she could speak about the women cache-sex. 5 young kuikuro, who have been just taught how to use the video camera, participated as cameramen and interviewers. BF and her assistant (Mara Santos) participated to the planning and to the realization of the session. The session took place inside the house of Samuagü(Tapualu's husband). Local: Aldeia Kuikuro (Ipatse); Parque Indígena do Xingu
		Documentation, description and analysis of the Kuikuro language (Carib). Phonetics and phonology; morphology; syntax. Comparison with the other Upper Xingu Carib variants (Kalapalo/Nahukwá/Matipu). Comparison with other Carib languages: the place of the Upper Xingu Carib inside the Carib family, as member of the southern branch. Social/political identity and linguistic identity in a multilingual society (the Upper Xingu). Ethnography of oral traditions: narrative, oratory, cerimonial discourse, curing formulas, chanted speech, songs. Verbal art and discourse genres in the Upper Xingu. The project began in December 2000, supported by the Volkswagen Stiftung, part of the DOBES (Documentation of Endangered Languages), with the support of the TIDEL equipe, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen). The project aims the documentation of the Kuikuro language and the construction of a multimidia database: grammar, lexicon, spoken and written texts, video, photos, draws, iconography, etc. The project has also the support of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro/Museu Nacional/Department of Anthropology, where it is being realized, and of the CNPq (brazilian national counsel for the scientific and technological development).
		This file was generated from an IMDI 1.9 file and transformed to IMDI 3.0. The substructure of Genre is replaced by two elements named "Genre" and "SubGenre". The original content of Genre substructure was: Interactional = '', Discursive = '', Performance = ''. These values have been added as Keys to the Content information.
		Tapualu, a kalapalo woman married with a Kuikuro man, describes and explains the upper Xingu women's cache-sex, called etungi in Kuikuro and knowed as "ulurí". The uluríis a small triangle made with bark and tied to three fine strings of buriti palm fibers.
		In the session Kalapalo is used by the performer. All the other kuikuro participants speak kuikuro as their mother language. The 5 kuikuro cameramen speak also portuguese: Magika has a good knowledge, having study in urban schools and having a considerable experience out of the indigenous area; the others have a very initial knowledge of the national language. BF speaks portuguese and kuikuro; her assistants speak only portuguese; Mara Santos has na initial knowledge of the Kuikuro.
		Tapualu (H=Samuagü) as perfomer. 5 kuikuro young men, aged between 16 and 22 years, participate as speakers and cameramen: Magika (F=Tabata, M- Kaküngahu), Amunegi (F=Tahukula, M=Jawapá), Takuma and Mahajugi (F=Samuagü, M=Tapualu), Maluf (F=Lamati, M=Magia). They know how to write and read kuikuro and portuguese with different degrees of proficiency: Magika spent one year in urban schools; the others are students of the local village school. BF as session creator; Mara Santos as assistant.
		DOBES.SESSIONNR="02"
Format:		video/x-mpeg1
		audio/x-wav
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-380E-A
		CNPq 302038/84-1
Subject:		Kuikúro-Kalapálo language
		Portuguese language
Subject (ISO639):		kui
		por
Type:		video
		audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0001-380E-A
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
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Search Info
Citation:		Bruna Franchetto; Tapualu; Bruna Franchetto. 2001-07-26. The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics.
Terms:		area_Americas area_Europe country_BR country_PT iso639_kui iso639_por
Inferred Metadata
Country:		BrazilPortugal
Area:		AmericasEurope