OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0005-79EB-9

Metadata
Title:		Awetí women fighting huka-huka
		fem_huka_huka
		Awetí Language Documentation Project
Contributor:		017
		Awetí
Coverage:		Brazil
Date:		2002-08-01
Description:		The recording shows the huka-huka fight between several young Awetí women and a woman from another ethnic group who has challenged them to the fight when entering the village. The fight takes place in the centre of the Awetí village not far from the men's house. The filming is done by 017. The researchers are watching from far away in order not to make the women feel uncomfortable with their presence.
		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.
		The session shows the huka-huka fight between several female contestants from the Awetí community and one contestant from a different village. After the fight the woman, who has been challenging them to the fight, is given presents (payment) by the Awetí women at the men's house.
		Awetí among the Awetí themselves. With the researchers, a mixture of Awetí and Protuguese, from both sides.
		The spontaneous fight between the strange woman, who happens to pass by the village that day, and several Awetí women serves as a practice for the traditional women's huka-huka at the jamurikumã feast. 017, who is the health-assistant of the village and therefore generally accepted by the women, is an ideal observer of the scene.
		017 is an older brother of the 018. 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. He is one of the many sons of 009 (Kamayurá) and 010, who left the village in 2002. Of his family, only 018 and his sister 019 (married to 132) stayed in the main village.
		House-building is a task carried out by men. The owner of the new house pays the house-builders with food which is distributed in the village centre after the work has been done.
		Due to a mistake during recording there is a new counting on the DV from 00:44:35 onwards.
Format:		video/x-mpeg1
		DV
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0005-79EB-9
		AW
Publisher:		Dr. Sebastian Drude and Prof. Dr. H.-H. Lieb
		Freie Universität Berlin
Subject:		Cultural data
		Misc
		Unspecified
		Portuguese language
		Awetí language
Subject (ISO639):		por
		awe
Type:		video
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for OLAC format
GetRecord:		Pre-generated XML file
OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0005-79EB-9
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		017; Awetí. 2002-08-01. Dr. Sebastian Drude and Prof. Dr. H.-H. Lieb.
Terms:		area_Americas area_Europe country_BR country_PT iso639_awe iso639_por
Inferred Metadata
Country:		BrazilPortugal
Area:		AmericasEurope