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Title:Naexewandua inun Ibadua miyuiki
MB_Naexewandua
Documentation of Cashinahua: Animacy and mythology in Huni Kuin (Cashinahua): a study of linguistic and cognitive categorization in a Panoan language
Contributor:Hulicio
Sabine
Contributor (author):Mario
Coverage:Peru
Date:2006-06-14
Description:This session contains a story told by Mario Bardales Tuesta. The recording took place in the forest behind Mario's house about 30 metres from the house under a banana tree. It is about 3 p.m. During the recording of this first story of the whole recording session there is only the author and the collector present at the location. There is little background noise.
This interdisciplinary project aims at the documentation of Cashinahua language and culture. The Cashinahua language community currently consists of about 6000 members living in several villages with 10 indigenous homelands in the Brazilian state of Acre, and about 1600 members living in 37 villages in Peru. Most members of the speech community are bilingual, either speaking Portuguese or Spanish as a second and in some cases (in Brazil) as a first language. The project is funded for the years of 2006 to 2009 by the VolkswagenStiftung in the Documentation of Endangered Languages Programme. The linguist Eliane Camargo initiated her research among the Brazilian Cashinahua in 1989 and continued to work with the Peruvian Cashinahua in 1994. The anthropologist Philippe Erikson started to work in 1985 with the Matis, another Brazilian Pano group, and in 1993 with the Chacobo, a Pano group living in Bolivia. The linguist Sabine Reiter who previously worked in another Dobes-Project started her research among the Cashinahua in 2006.
The story is about two brothers called Naexewandua and Ibadua. Ibuadan is the lover of his brother's wife. He gets ill during a hunting trip and gets very thin. When he returns he is ashamed and does not want to be seen by his lover. She manages to find him and takes care of him.
The story is told in Cashinahua.
Since Sabine was living in Mario's house during her first field-period in San Martin, there is a relaxed atmosphere. In addition, Mario is used to recordings and to speaking in public, so that he does not seem to feel uncomfortable at all with the situation. The annotation (transcription and translation into Portuguese) was done by Sabine Reiter and Hulício Moises Kaxinawá in the town of Santa Rosa/ Purus in the Brazilian state of Acre in June 2006. Hulício is a relative of Mario whom he calls "uncle".
Mario is one of several older men who were the main informants during the two weeks Sabine Reiter and Eliane Camargo spent in San Martin in June 2006. Sabine Reiter was living with his family. He was born in 1940 in the village of Palmera in the Quebrada de Chapuja in Peru. Ten years of his life he spent in Conta, a village which is only about an hour by boat from Puerto Esperanza, the only Peruvian town of the region. According to himself (arguably, according to Eliane Camargo) he was one of the founders and the first chief of the village of Balta in 1960 where he also exerted other important professions (teacher, preacher, mechanic, health assistant). He handed over the chief's position to his brother-in-law Grompez and continued to work as a teacher. Mario started to learn Spanish with about 18 years. From 1969 onwards Mario worked with Richard Montag as one of his bible translators (the current version of the Cashinahua New Testament was published in 2004). Mario learned the arts of story-telling with his uncle (his father's brother) and only a little with his father. He was married to his wife Laura Bardales Peso at the age of ten or eleven. He has got 5 (living) children with her. Later he married her 10-years-younger sister Mirita with whom he has one child. Owing to the influence of Richard Montag who told him that a Christian mustn't have two wives he separated from her. Mirita continues to live with her son and his family in the same place as Mario but in a separate house.
Hulício is a young man, grandson of Herman Kaxinawa and son of Sabino Kaxinawa who lives in the town of Santa Rosa/ Purus in the Brazilian state of Acre. He was born in the village of Feijó/ Purus and later lived in the village of Nova Aliança where he went to grammar school for four years. He came to Santa Rosa four years agoin order to complete his studies. Later his whole family followed. He is married and has got one little child.
Doctorate candidate in the Cashinahua project; Magister Artium in Linguistics and Latin American Studies (Freie Unversität Berlin, 1999); European Master Degree in Linguistics (Freie Universität Berlin/ University of Manchester 2000), emphasis in language typology and sociolinguistics; from 2001 to 2006 field researcher in the Awetí Language Documentation Project (also belonging to the DobeS-Programme), several field periods from 2001to 2005 in the Upper Xingu area in Central Brazil.
The audio recording was done with a Sony Portable Minidisk Recorder MZ-RH10 and an external electret condenser stereo microphone SONY ECM-MS957.
There is a transcription of the recording, done with the Transcriber software. In addition, the is a translation into Portuguese on paper.
The minidisk is divided into tracks of up to 5 min each. The session is on track 3 of group 1 on the minidisk. The whole session has a duration of 4 min and 55 sec.
The session CASRAM14Jun0601-S3 on CADMF 11 needs to be renamed as Mario_Naexewandua.
Format:audio/x-wav
TRS
MD
CD
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-000C-3B75-C
CA
Publisher:Eliane Camargo or Sabine Reiter
Université Internationale de l'Ouest de Paris; Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Subject:Discourse
Narrative
Unspecified
Cashinahua language
Subject (ISO639):cbs
Type:audio

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Citation: Mario. 2006-06-14. Eliane Camargo or Sabine Reiter.
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Inferred Metadata

Country: Peru
Area: Americas


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