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Title:nzürna ngare
tci20111012-02
Morehead: Languages of Southern New Guinea
Contributor (researcher):Christian Döhler
Contributor (speaker):Orot Mokai
Mauri Orot
Coverage:Papua New Guinea
Date:2011-10-12
Description:This is a nzürna story. nzürna is a female sprit woman who lives in the forest and may pose a threat to people. She is able to change her appearance and deceives people. She often follows the protagonist of the story and kills and eats him or her. These stories are widespread in the Morehead District and are adapted to particular locale and a related protagonist. This story was told in Kanathér, where a group of people camped at the time. Kanathér is the `ponton place' where people frequently cross the Morehead River. It is about 1km West of Morehead. This story was told at night by the campfire with an audience of small children by an older man. His wife sat next to him and always added to the story or reminded him of the parts he forgot. This nzürna story is rather long version and the speaker breaks into song at some points in the story.
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
This is a nzürna story. nzürna is a female sprit woman who lives in the forest and may pose a threat to people. She is able to change her appearance and deceives people. She often follows the protagonist of the story and kills and eats him or her. These stories are widespread in the Morehead District and are adapted to particular locale and a related protagonist. This story was told in Kanathér, where a group of people camped at the time. Kanathér is the `ponton place' where people frequently cross the Morehead River. It is about 1km West of Morehead. This story was told at night by the campfire with an audience of small children by an older man. His wife sat next to him and always added to the story or reminded him of the parts he forgot. This nzürna story is rather long version and the speaker breaks into song at some points in the story. It is only partially transcribed and translated.
kómnzo
Mauri died in July 2012 possible of a heart attack on the way back to Rouku from her garden in Ngazäthe
Format:audio/x-wav
text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:oai:www.mpi.nl:1839_00-0000-0000-001E-16ED-5
Publisher:Professor Nicholas Evans
The Australian National University
Subject:texts,narrative,myth
nzürna,witch story,song,myth
Wára language
Kómnzo
English language
Subject (ISO639):tci
eng
Type:audio

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Citation: Christian Döhler (researcher); Orot Mokai (speaker); Mauri Orot (speaker). 2011-10-12. Professor Nicholas Evans.
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Country: United KingdomPapua New Guinea
Area: EuropePacific


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