OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-8670-2

Metadata
Title:		Alekseeva_RD_lost_tapes_znatoki
Coverage:		Russian Federation
Date:		2010-02-19
Description:		RDA came to the flat that NA and BP are renting, where the recording was done in the kitchen. After a cup of tea to warm up we switched on the equipment and she started to narrate various stories, both about her own life as well as stories that had been told her. It was fairly quiet in the house, though the washbasin dripped; at a somewhat later stage in the recording the house owner started chopping firewood outside, which might be audible. Since RDA spoke for one hour, touching upon various topics, we cut up the video file into 7 separate files that deal with separate topics to facilitate the workflow (transcription, translation, interlinearization). The separate files are archived separately. The recording was done in mono with a Marantz recorder and a Sony handycam on videotape. The videofilm was transferred to the computer as .avi and later converted to mpeg2.
		Ėven is a Northern Tungusic language spoken over a vast area of northeastern Siberia, from the Lena-Jana watershed in the west to the coast of the Oxotsk Sea, Chukotka, and Kamchatka in the east. Traditionally, Ėvens are nomadic hunters and reindeer pastoralists. Reindeer, both domesticated and wild, play an important role in their culture and ethnic self-identification. Reindeer herding, however, has become highly endangered throughout the Russian North, which has had extremely negative effects on the Ėvens' self-perception and social relations. Therefore the project will not only seek to document the language, but also the state of reindeer herding among the Ėvens in different regional settings. Due to the fragmentation of the Ėven communities, several dialects have emerged which are classified into two major dialectal groups: Western and Eastern. These dialects form a continuum with pronounced lack of mutual intelligibility between the extremes. So far, only two variants of one of the dozen or more dialects have been documented to a notable extent; these variants are also the least endangered ones. Other dialects are either on the verge of extinction or moribund. The project aims at documenting three highly endangered variants of Ėven that currently still have enough fluent speakers to make a comprehensive documentation feasible. These are the dialect spoken in the village of Sebjan-Küöl in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), which is the westernmost Ėven dialect still spoken; the dialect spoken in the village of Topolinoe in Yakutia, which also belongs to the Western dialect group, but is in an intermediate geographic location and the dialect spoken in the Bystraja district on Kamchatka representing the Eastern dialect group.
		This is the last section of the recording. At first, RDA tells about how she had taken a tape-recorder to the reindeer herd with her in the summer after she had finished school, and how she had recorded the old women and men in the herd telling her about how life used to be, about old traditions, old folklore, songs, etc. She had left these recordings in a box at home when she left for Yakutsk to go to university, only to find when she came back that her younger sister had overplayed this unique collection of folklore with music. From there she moves on to listing the people in Sebjan who know a lot about old traditions and local history and who could perhaps be asked to contribute their knowledge to the Dobes archive.
Format:		audio/x-wav
		video/x-mpeg2
		text/x-pfsx+xml
		application/pdf
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0016-8670-2
Publisher:		Brigitte Pakendorf
		CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon 2
Subject:		Discourse
		Narrative
		Even language
Subject (ISO639):		eve
Type:		audio
		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_00-0000-0000-0016-8670-2
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
Search Info
Citation:		n.a. 2010-02-19. Brigitte Pakendorf.
Terms:		area_Europe country_RU iso639_eve
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Russian Federation
Area:		Europe