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Title:The making of a basket by an Awetí man
making_basket
Awetí Language Documentation Project
Contributor:Sebastian
Contributor (consultant):026
Coverage:Brazil
Date:2003-06-27
Description:This project aims at the documentation of the Awetí Language and aspects of the Awetí culture. Awetí is a tupian language of a small speech community of the same name at the southern edge of the Amazon rain forest, in the Xingú reserve, Mato Grosso, central Brazil. The project was funded December 2000--April 2006 by the VolkswagenStiftung in the Documentation of Endangered Languages Programme (DOBES). The principal researcher, Sebastian Drude, initianted his research among the Aweti in 1998. Sabine Reiter participated as a freelancer in 2001 and as research assistant (including conducting field research) from 2002 on. The Awetí participated intensively in the project. At least one person of each houshold provided individual texts, the community agreed to be documented in day-to-day activities and during special events such as rituals. Several Awetí got involved in the further processing of the documentation data, especially by assisting in the creation of transcriptions and translations during the 9 field trips and in 8 visits of two to three speakers in Belém or Canarana.
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 = 'Unspecified', Discursive = 'Unspecified', Performance = 'Unspecified'. These values have been added as Keys to the Content information.
SD observes 026, an older Awetí man who is starting to make a loose basket as used for transporting salt. Making baskets belongs to the kind of handicraft usually made by men. Other items produced by men are e.g. ornaments out of feathers, bows and arrows. Women are engaged in other tasks like weaving hammocks, making beads and jewellery (necklaces, bracelets, fingerrings) etc.
The talk in this session is of minor importance. Usually the conversation between the researchers and most members of the Awetí community is a mixture between Brazilian Portuguese and elements in Awetí (words and phrases).
026 is one of the few elder members of the Awetí. He is son of an important chief, but his father died before he could teach him sufficient of his knowledge and skills for 026 feel save being a chief himself; therefore he rejects to be any more than a regular member of the village. His oldest son, 030, is a very respected adult. His second son and his doughters left to the second village in 2002.
The principal researcher of the Aweti 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 of Berlin, 2002). Initiated field research among the Aweti in 1998. Field stays: July--October 1998, September--October 1999, June--August 2001, June--August 2002, May--July 2003, May--June 2004, Feb 2004, Nov 2004
A shorter clip showing the first steps in producing a loose basket as used for transporting salt.
This part corresponds to media file making_basket.mpg.
Format:video/x-mpeg1
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0005-793E-9
AW
Publisher:Dr. Sebastian Drude and Prof. Dr. H.-H. Lieb
Freie Universität Berlin
Subject:Cultural data
Artefacts
Unspecified
Awetí language
Portuguese language
Subject (ISO639):awe
por
Type:video

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Citation: 026 (consultant); Sebastian. 2003-06-27. Dr. Sebastian Drude and Prof. Dr. H.-H. Lieb.
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