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Metadata
Title:ritual knowledge
tci20111008
Morehead: Languages of Southern New Guinea
Contributor (researcher):Christian Döhler
Contributor (speaker):Marua Bai
Orot Mokai
Mea Bai
Coverage:Papua New Guinea
Date:2011-10-08
Description:This is a recording involving three older men who talk about all kinds of ritualistic knowledge: male initiation, old myths, the origin of fire, etc. This is sensitive information which should not be played to women or uninitiated males of the Morehead area.
This project focuses on collecting multimedia documentation of multiple undescribed Papuan languages – Nen and Nambu (Morehead-Maro) and Kmntso (Tonda). Other nearby languages will have varrying degrees of description, including Idi, Nama, and Neme. All of these languages belong to an almost completely unknown family in Southern New Guinea. Based at the Australian National University in Canberra, plus collaborations with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, the Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, and the PNG National Herbarium, the project will embed a German PhD student (Christian Döhler) in a team including a seasoned field linguist (Nick Evans) and a post-doc (Julia Colleen Miller), two Germany-based typologists (Bernard Comrie and Volker Gast) from the FAUST (Future Archive User Simulation Team), plus participation on targeted fieldtrips by ethnobiologist Chris Healey (ANU) and botanist Kipiro Damas (PNG National Herbarium, Madang). Particular foci of the documentation will be the natural world (especially ethnobotany and ethnoornithology), swidden cultivation, fire management and ethnoecology, mythology, auto-ethnography, ethnomathematics, and microvariation in language use in a situation of daily multilingualism.nichola
kómnzo
Format:video/x-mpeg2
audio/x-wav
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-001E-16CD-A
Publisher:Professor Nicholas Evans
The Australian National University
Subject:texts,narrative,conversation
religion,myths,male initiation
Wára language
Kómnzo
English language
Subject (ISO639):tci
eng
Type:video
audio

OLAC Info

Archive:  The Language Archive at the MPI for Psycholinguistics
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OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-001E-16CD-A
DateStamp:  2017-02-14
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Search Info

Citation: Christian Döhler (researcher); Marua Bai (speaker); Orot Mokai (speaker); Mea Bai (speaker). 2011-10-08. Professor Nicholas Evans.
Terms: area_Europe area_Pacific country_GB country_PG iso639_eng iso639_tci

Inferred Metadata

Country: United KingdomPapua New Guinea
Area: EuropePacific


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