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Title:Changes in customs and traditions
RG02Tradition
Organization of a Text Collection in Trumai, Aiming at its Scientific Documentation
Contributor:Speaker2
Raquel
Coverage:Brazil
Date:2002-07-26
Description:ENGLISH: A Trumai speaker talks about the changes that are happening nowadays in the traditions of the Xinguan groups. He starts talking about a traditional kind of food, and explains how young people are changing their habits with regard to food, clothing, behavior, and so on. He also makes some reflections about this issue. ----- PORTUGUÊS: Um falante de Trumai fala sobre as mudanças que estão acontecendo atualmente com os grupos xinguanos. Ele começa falando sobre um tipo de comida tradicional e explica como os jovens estão mudando seus hábitos com relação a comida, roupas, comportamento, etc. Ele também faz algumas reflexões sobre este tema.
The purpose of the project is to document Trumai, a genetically isolate language spoken in Brazil. The archive consists of a collection of texts in the language, plus other kinds of materials relative to the Trumai culture, such as photos, drawings, songs, educational materials, etc.
A Trumai speaker talks about various kinds of changes in tradition that he observes nowadays. He considers that young people are behaving differently from old people with regard to ways of dressing, ways of behaving socially, food habits, knowledge of language and oral tradition, etc.
The researcher introduces the topic in Portuguese. The main speaker talks in Trumai.
Speaker2 talks to the researcher, who is behind the video camera.
Speaker2 is considered one of the best speakers of the Trumai language. He also has strong knowledge about various aspects of the Trumai culture. He has been living in the city of Canarana since 1996, because of health problems. He lives with his wife and kids. Both his parents were Trumai. Speaker2 is married to a Kamayurá woman, who also speaks Trumai. He is middle-aged, has various kids and grand-kids.
Raquel is a Brazilian linguist. She has been working with the Trumai people since 1989. She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics from Rice University (Houston, Texas, U.S.A).
Format:video/x-mpeg1
DV
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0008-E1DB-D
Documentation of Trumai
Publisher:Raquel Guirardello-Damian
Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Discourse
Explanation
Xinguan traditions
Portuguese language
Trumai language
Trumaí
Subject (ISO639):por
tpy
Type:video

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Citation: Speaker2; Raquel. 2002-07-26. Raquel Guirardello-Damian.
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