OLAC Record oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0018-CB89-8

Metadata
Title:		Krivoshapkin_SP_oxota
Contributor:		Brigitte Pakendorf
		Natalia Aralova
		Ija Vasil'evna
Contributor (speaker):		Semën Petrovič
Contributor (translator):		Brigitte Pakendorf
		Ija Vasil'evna
Coverage:		Russian Federation
Date:		2010-02-26
Description:		SPK was unexpectedly brought to the flat where NA and BP are staying by the vice-head of administration of the village, Nikolaj Mixajlovich, who also functions as the chairman of the "fathers' club" of the village and whom we had asked for help in alerting men to our aims. Nikolaj Mixajlovich had written down a few topics about which SPK could talk; he briefed SPK while we were setting up the recording equipment and handed him the note with the topics - SPK can be seen holding it towards the end of the video. When he finished his briefing, Nikolaj Mixajlovich left, and SPK was left alone with NA and BP. Since he was shy and didn't really know what to talk about, we asked quite a lot of questions in very broken Even, so that altogether the amount of Even spoken by SPK is not nearly as much as might be thought by the length of the recording (~23 minutes): of roughly 280 annotations, only about 120 are sentences spoken by SPK. Overall, it was fairly quiet, though a fly flew around at one time, and some dogs started barking in the street. 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.
		SPK told a bit about how his father hunted and worked in the reindeer herd, and how he himself sets traps for sable and snares for rabbits in winter, as well as a bit about his life as a reindeer herder. At the end he told a bit about some medicinal herbs that are used here.
Format:		video/x-mpeg2
		audio/x-wav
		text/x-pfsx+xml
		text/x-eaf+xml
		application/pdf
Identifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0018-CB89-8
Publisher:		Brigitte Pakendorf
		CNRS & Université Lumière Lyon 2
Subject:		Even language
Subject (ISO639):		eve
Type:		video
		audio
OLAC Info
Archive:		The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/www.mpi.nl
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OAI Info
OaiIdentifier:		oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-0018-CB89-8
DateStamp:		2017-02-14
GetRecord:		OAI-PMH request for simple DC format
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Citation:		Brigitte Pakendorf; Natalia Aralova; Semën Petrovič (speaker); Ija Vasil'evna; Brigitte Pakendorf (translator); Brigitte Pakendorf; Ija Vasil'evna (translator). 2010-02-26. Brigitte Pakendorf.
Terms:		area_Europe country_RU iso639_eve
Inferred Metadata
Country:		Russian Federation
Area:		Europe