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| Title: | Kwarup at the Yawalapiti | |
| yaw_kwarup | ||
| Awetí Language Documentation Project | ||
| Contributor: | Awetí | |
| Yawalapiti-community | ||
| SD | ||
| Teacher | ||
| 017 | ||
| SR | ||
| ### | ||
| Sebastian Drude + Sabine Reiter | ||
| Contributor (consultant): | 083 | |
| Coverage: | Brazil | |
| Date: | 2002-08-02 | |
| Description: | This session consists of eleven parts, recording the Kwarup feast of the Yawalapiti community to which the Awetí community has been invited. There is a video recording to the first part (showing the arrival of the inviters to the Kwarup) as well as a more lengthy audio recording which captures the conversation of the men and children inside the men's house. Therefore the video recording is of a more cultural value to the project, while the audio recording, presenting dialogical speech, may have some linguistic relevance. Part 2 shows the ritual scratching of the huka-huka fighters at the men's house, part 3 the bicycle trip to the Yawalapiti village. Part 4 shows a break at the new settlement near Posto Leonardo, part 5 the arrival at the Yawalapiti village. Part 6 was recorded outside the Yawalapiti village at dawn, showing the preparations of the Awetí for the Kwarup. The recording of part 7 was realized inside the Yawalapiti village in the morning, showing men/ boys dancing in a circle. The recording of the huka-huka competition in part 8 was realized inside the Yawalapiti village in the late morning hours. Part 9 and 10, recorded around midday, show individual huka-huka fights. In part 11 the ceremony, showing trading of goods between the different communities, flute-players, the dance of the girls released from reclusion, is concluded. ### | |
| This project aims at the documentation of the Awetí Language, a Tupian language of a small speech community in central Brazil. It is funded for the years from November 2000 to March 2005 by the VolkswagenStiftung in the Documentation of Endangered Languages Programme. The principal researcher, Sebastian Drude, initiated his research among the Awetí in 1998. The assistant researcher, Sabine Reiter, started to work in the project in 2001. | ||
| 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 = 'conversation', Discursive = 'Unspecified', Performance = 'Unknown'. These values have been added as Keys to the Content information. | ||
| The first part of the session shows the arrival of three Yawalapiti moretás (messengers) at the Awetí village to invite the community to the Kwarup on the occasion of the death of Paru, most powerful shaman of the Alto Xingu and father of the present Yawalapiti chief. The reception of the inviters in the village centre is highly ritualized. The second part shows the ritual scratching of the young men who are going to be the huka-huka fighters at the Yawalapiti Kwarup. This procedure is regarded a means to fortify the men for the fight. Part 3 shows Sebastian, Teacher and other members of the Awetí community on their way to the Yawalapiti village by bicycle. They arrive at the new settlement where Waranaku's parents live together with several other family-members. After that they continue their ride until arriving at the Posto Leonardo (health post) where a group of Guaranà (special guests to the Kwarup) dance and sing on a stage (part 4). Part 5 shows the arrival of the Awetí at the Yawalapiti village, where they are given food by the pareat/ moretá (the person who invited them) who is responsible for their group. He also leads them to their night camp outside the village which he has prepared for them. Part 6 shows the Awetí at their night camp at dawn preparing for the Kwarup. They paint each other/ themselves with body-paint and put on their ornament. Part 7 shows the male Xingu population performing a dance in a big circle in the Yawalapiti village centre to initiate the the huka-huka fight. Part 8 shows the beginning of the huka-huka cerimony, followed by individual huka-huka fights between the contestants of the communities (continuing in part 9 and 10). The fighting is organized group-wise, i.e. the contestants of two ethnic groups fight against each other at a time. Part 11 shows different cerimonies at the end of a Kwarup celebration: Goods are exchanged between the different ethnic groups and there is the dance of the flute-players, accompanied by the girls who are just released from reclusion. ### | ||
| When two communities enter in contact with each other (esp. on formal occasion), both communicate in their own language which is understood by some members of the opposite community. A distinct language is considered to be the most powerful expression of one's own identity as a community. The Awetí speak their own language among themselves and in formal contact with another Xingu population. The Yawalapiti (probably) speak Kamayurá which is the dominant language within their community. At these formal encounters there is a lot of highly ritualized non-verbal communication. Sebastian and Sabine, observing the procedure, communicate with the Awetí men in Portuguese. | ||
| The Jawari-cerimony is performed by the Awetí-community as a whole. Since Jawari is a ritual celebration carried out by men, the male members of the Awetí-community are especially involved. | ||
| 083 is one of the few elders of the village. His father was the last chief, and he is also considered to be a (at least, secondary) chief by many members of the community. He is the most prestigeous story teller living in the village today, and one of the most powerful shamans, too. | ||
| The main researcher of the Awetí Project. See description of Collector. | ||
| 017 is an older brother of Teacher. He is, despite his age, not married. He is being trained as an "Agente de saúde" (auxiliar male nurse). He participated in the first training courses for teachers, and he is literate in Portuguese. | ||
| The assistant researcher of the Awetí Project. | ||
| This part corresponds to media file jaw_kwarup01.mpg. | ||
| This part corresponds to media file jaw_kwarup02.mpg. | ||
| This part corresponds to media file jaw_kwarup03.mpg. | ||
| The participants from different communities engage in highly ritualized interaction where body movements and gestures seem to play a more important role than speech (part 1,5). The two researchers observe the ritual scratching of the Huka-huka contestants (part 2) and other preparations for the Kwarup (part 6). Sebastian and Teacher have become good friends after having worked together at the Awetí language for several years (part 3,4). The male population of the Upper Xingu is performing a ritual Kwarup dance while the female population and the visitors watch them (part 7). Chosen male representatives of each ethnic group of the Upper Xingu population participate in the huka-huka fighting belonging to the Kwarup while the rest of the population and the visitors watch them (part 8,9,10). Different actions take place at the same time: some are engaged in trading, others watch the dance of the flute-players while other people already prepare their departure (part 11). | ||
| Sebastian Drude is the principal researcher of the Awetí Project. Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter (teaching and research assistant), Free University Berlin / Germany. Magister Artium in Linguistics (Free University of Berlin, 1997). Two-year DAAD fellowship at Museu Goeldi, Belém, 1997--1999. PhD in Linguistics (Free University Berlin 2002). Initiated field research among the Awetí in 1998. Field stays: July--October 1998, September--October 1999, June--August 2001, May--Aug2002. Sabine Reiter is the assistant researcher in the Awetí-Project. Magister Artium in Linguistics (Freie Universität Berlin, 1999). European Master in Linguistic Typology/ Sociolinguistics (Freie Universität Berlin/ University of Manchester, 2000). Field trip: July/ August 2002. | ||
| This part corresponds to media file jaw_kwarup04.mpg. | ||
| This part corresponds to media file jaw_kwarup05.mpg. | ||
| This part corresponds to media file jaw_kwarup06.mpg. | ||
| This part corresponds to media file jaw_kwarup07.mpg. | ||
| This part corresponds to media file jaw_kwarup08.mpg. | ||
| This part corresponds to media file jaw_kwarup09.mpg. | ||
| This part corresponds to media file jaw_kwarup10.mpg. | ||
| This part corresponds to media file jaw_kwarup11.mpg. | ||
| This part corresponds to media file yaw_kwarup01a.wav. | ||
| This part corresponds to media file yaw_kwarup01b.wav. | ||
| Format: | video/x-mpeg1 | |
| audio/x-wav | ||
| DV | ||
| MD | ||
| Identifier: | oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0005-7909-0 | |
| AW | ||
| Publisher: | Prof. Dr. H.-H. Lieb and / or Sebastian Drude | |
| Freie Universität Berlin | ||
| Subject: | Awetí language | |
| Kamayurá language | ||
| Portuguese language | ||
| Subject (ISO639): | awe | |
| kay | ||
| por | ||
| Type: | video | |
| audio | ||
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| 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_00-0000-0000-0005-7909-0 | |
| DateStamp: | 2017-02-14 | |
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| Citation: | Awetí; Yawalapiti-community; 083 (consultant); SD; Teacher; 017; SR; ###; Sebastian Drude + Sabine Reiter. 2002-08-02. Prof. Dr. H.-H. Lieb and / or Sebastian Drude. | |
| Terms: | area_Americas area_Europe country_BR country_PT iso639_awe iso639_kay iso639_por | |
Inferred Metadata | ||
| Country: | BrazilPortugal | |
| Area: | AmericasEurope | |