Exp_Bal_Rit_01

Detailed Metadata

• lat-session
  • History : NAME:IMDI_1_9_TO_3_0 DATE:. NAME:imdi2cmdi.xslt DATE:2016-09-09T16:20:04.913+02:00.
  • Name : Exp_Bal_Rit_01
  • Title : AM talks about spells
  • Date : 2003-03-26
  • descriptions
    • Description : This is an interview in which AM speaks about sekretos "secrets" or spells.
  • Location
    • Continent : Middle-America
    • Country : Mexico
    • Region : Chiapas
    • Region : Naha
    • Address : AM's godhouse by the airstrip
  • Project
    • Name : Lacandón
    • Title : Lacandón Cultural Heritage
    • Id :
    • Contact
      • Name : Suzanne Cook
      • Address : Dept. of Linguistics, PO Box 3045 Victoria, BC, V8W 3P4, Canada
      • Email : scook@uvic.ca
      • Organisation : University of Victoria
    • descriptions
      • Description : Lacandon Cultural Heritage is a documentation of the language and culture of the northern Lacandon(Maya), who live in the rain forest in Chiapas, the south-eastern state of Mexico. They number approximately 350 men, women and children, who have retained much of their traditional culture and religion. The project serves as a preservative measure against loss of the traditional knowledge, stories, and verbal performances that are central to Lacandon culture. It also serves as an interactive resource tool for linguists and non-linguists to access data relevant to their areas of interest, such as folklore, ethnobotany, cultural anthropology, etc.
  • Content
    • Genre : Discourse
    • SubGenre : Interview
    • Task : Unspecified
    • Modalities : speech
    • Subject : secrets
    • CommunicationContext
      • Interactivity : interactive
      • PlanningType : semi-spontaneous
      • Involvement : non-elicited
      • SocialContext : Private
      • EventStructure : Dialogue
      • Channel : Face to Face
    • Content_Languages
      • descriptions
        • Description : Spanish is the only language spoken in this session.
      • Content_Language
        • Id : ISO639-3:spa
        • Name : Spanish
        • Dominant : false
        • SourceLanguage : Unspecified
        • TargetLanguage : Unspecified
        • descriptions
          • Description : Most Lacandones are fluent in Spanish, which they acquire alongside their native language. It is the language of communication with foreigners, other indigenous groups whose mother tongue is not Lacandon, and Mexicans. Spanish is also the language of instruction in the state-run schools in Naha and surrounding villages. The only members not able to speak Spanish are older women over the age of 45.
    • Keys
      • Key : conversation
      • Key : explanation
      • Key : Unspecified
    • descriptions
      • Description : This is an interview in which AM speaks about sekretos "secrets" or spells. The purpose of this session was to record information on the spell to ferment the blache, which AM recited in Bal_Rit_AM_01. In addition to answering this question, AM demonstrates a part of spell for curing toothache.
  • Actors
    • descriptions
      • Description : AM and the collectors interact in this session. There is no else present during the recording.
    • Actor
      • Role : Speaker/Signer
      • Name : AM
      • FullName : Protected name: @MPI:Lacandon:rwaldie:Code_AM@
      • Code : AM
      • FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
      • EthnicGroup : northern Lacandón
      • BirthDate : 1925
      • Sex : Male
      • Education : no formal education, illiterate
      • Anonymized : true
      • Age
        • AgeRange
          • MinimumAge
            • years : 77
          • MaximumAge
            • years : 78
      • Contact :
      • descriptions
        • Description : AM is an elder in the community of Naha. He is respected for his knowledge of traditional Lacandón culture, and his knowledge of the traditional stories and ceremonial formulae. He is one of the few Lacandones who still practice the ancient Maya rituals. AM provides the bulk of the traditional rituals and stories for this corpus.
      • Actor_Languages
        • descriptions
          • Description : AM is fluent in Lacandon and semi-fluent in Spanish. He is literate in neither language.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:lac
          • Name : Lacandón
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : true
          • descriptions
            • Description : Lacandon is the first language of this speaker. It is used in the home and the community in most day-to-day verbal exchanges. It is also the language used in religious ceremonies and other formal verbal performances.
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:spa
          • Name : Spanish
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
          • descriptions
            • Description : Lacandones are bilingual in their home language and Spanish, which they learn at a young age. Spanish is seldom used as the language of communication in the village; rather, it is reserved for communicating with outsiders, including southern Lacandones, government officials, merchants, and other non-Lacandon speakers.
    • Actor
      • Role : Translator
      • Name : Arianne
      • FullName : Arianne Crossley
      • Code : AC
      • FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
      • EthnicGroup : Canadian
      • BirthDate : Unspecified
      • Sex : Female
      • Education : University
      • Anonymized : false
      • Age
        • EstimatedAge : Unspecified
      • Contact :
      • Actor_Languages :
    • Actor
      • Role : Collector
      • Name : Suzanne Cook
      • FullName : Suzanne Cook
      • Code : Unspecified
      • FamilySocialRole : Unspecified
      • EthnicGroup :
      • BirthDate : Unspecified
      • Sex : Unspecified
      • Education :
      • Anonymized : false
      • Age
        • EstimatedAge : Unspecified
      • Contact
        • Name : Suzanne Cook
        • Address : Dept. of Linguistics PO Box 3045 Victoria BC V8W 3P4 Canada
        • Email : scook@uvic.ca
        • Organisation : University of Victoria
      • descriptions
        • Description : The collector of this session data is also responsbile for the collection of all of the data sessions and the whole project.
      • Actor_Languages :
  • Resources
    • MediaFile
      • Type : video
      • Format : video/x-mpeg1
      • Size :
      • Quality : Unspecified
      • RecordingConditions :
      • TimePosition
        • Start : Unspecified
        • End : Unspecified
      • Access
        • Availability :
        • Date : Unspecified
        • Owner :
        • Publisher :
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    • Source
      • Id : LASCVDN26Mar0301
      • Format : DV
      • Quality : Unknown
      • TimePosition
        • Start : 00:33:30:22
        • End : 00:36:57:03
      • Access
        • Availability : available
        • Date : 2005-12-19
        • Owner : Suzanne Cook
        • Publisher :
        • Contact
          • Name : Suzanne Cook
          • Address : 311 Stevens Rd. Victoria, BC. V9E 2J1
          • Email : scook@uvic.ca
          • Organisation : University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
        • descriptions
          • Description : This is available
    • Anonyms
      • Access
        • Availability :
        • Date : 2002-12-09
        • Owner :
        • Publisher :
        • Contact :
  • References
    • descriptions
      • Description : For the ritual, see the session below, ../../Chants/Metadata/Bal_Rit_AM_01.imdi