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Title:A trip to collect buriti-palm fruits
buriti-trip
Awetí Language Documentation Project
Contributor:Sebastian
Contributor (consultant):118
121
080
143
Contributor (interviewer):Sebastian
Coverage:Brazil
Date:2005-01
Description:A trip into the swamp area of the Tuatuari close to the village in order to collect Burití palm fruits.
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.
SD accompanies 4 Awetí in two canoes on a trip on the Tuatuarí. In the other canoe there are the head of house 118, his wife 121, and a young woman, 081. In SD's canoe the 'driver' is the young man 143. They enter into the net of canals and swamps where the burití-palms grow and collect the fruits that have already fallen and are floating on the water, otherwise being eaten by fish. Several explanations by 118 and 121 could be transcribed. For more details of individual scenes see the description of the media-file.
Much Awetí, even with the researcher SD. He sometimes speaks in Portuguese, and sometimes other participants speak Portuguese to the researcher.
SD in one boat with 143. In the other boat, 118 (man, behind), 121, his wife (middle) and 080 (not their daughter, front).
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
121 is the wife of 118 and mother of many children, 119 and 122 among them who are married with 085, one of the teachers. She is a half sister of 083, story teller and father of 085. She is a specialist in producing mats (esteiras) and hammocks.
080 is the second daughter and fourth child of 030 and 074.
143 is a son of 077 and his wife 076. He continues most time in the Awetí village although his father (and in 2006 even his mother) left to the Kamayurá village. He made a longer vosot to Rio de Janeiro in 1998, by an invitation from a chilene film team.
The main researcher of the Aweti Project. See description of Collector.
A trip to collecting Buriti-palm-fruits 0:00:00 On the way to the haven 0:00:17 At the haven, prepairing canoes, departure 0:01:43 On the Tuatuari 0:02:57 In the buriti-swamps, collecting first fruits, Explanations should be transcribed! 0:04:25 On the Tuatuari 0:05:08 close on the swamp 0:05:36 collecting fruits, explanations about fish that eat the fruits, should be translated 0:08:29 close on hand peeling the buriti-fruit (no cut) 0:10:27 medicinical root, explanations about that plant and buriti, could be transcribed 0:12:29 continuing the trip 0:12:56 Awariaju in the water to reach many fruits 0:14:52 In the middle of the swamps 0:15:35 On the way back 0:16:19 Close on buriti palms, fruits in the tree 0:16:51 Arriving back at the haven.
Format:video/x-mpeg1
MiniDV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0005-797D-C
AW
Publisher:Dr. Sebastian Drude and Prof. Dr. H.-H. Lieb
Freie Universität Berlin
Subject:Culture
Food
Unspecified
Awetí language
Portuguese language
Subject (ISO639):awe
por
Type:video

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Citation: Sebastian; 118 (consultant); 121 (consultant); 080 (consultant); 143 (consultant); Sebastian (interviewer). 2005-01. Dr. Sebastian Drude and Prof. Dr. H.-H. Lieb.
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Country: BrazilPortugal
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