Wedding5_Bahati_and_Nevumbas_Marriage_ceremony_at_brides_home

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  • Name : Wedding5_Bahati_and_Nevumbas_Marriage_ceremony_at_brides_home
  • Title : 2017-09-21Mpogoi5Wedding5Bahati
  • Date : 2017-09-21
  • descriptions
    • Description : Bahati's Wedding in Mpogoi with the in laws,before the wedding ceremony (the ceremony itself is not allowed to be seen from people who are no Akie)
  • Location
    • Continent : Africa
    • Country : Tanzania
    • Region : Maasai Step
    • Address : Mpogoi
  • Project
    • Name : Akie
    • Title : Akie in Tanzania – updating the documentation of a critically endangered language
    • Id : AZ 92739
    • Contact
      • Name : Karsten Legère
      • Address : Institut für Afrikawissenschaften Universität Wien Spitalgasse 2-4, Hof 5 A - 1090 Wien
      • Email : karsten.legere@african.gu.se
      • Organisation : Universität Frankfurt a. M.
    • descriptions
      • Description : The Akie of Tanzania are a traditional hunter-gatherer society whose language is seriously endangered. The language, presumably a member of the Kalenjin branch of the Southern Nilotic languages, is still actively spoken in three villages of northeastern Tanzania, but the majority language and culture in the Akie-speaking area is Maa (speaking the Maasai dialect), which belongs to the Eastern Nilotic branch of the Nilotic family. The total number of Akie people is estimated at roughly 2500 people, but the number of people still speaking the language is presumably below 200. The massive impact of Maa language, culture, and life style plus the increasing influence of Bantu languages, including Swahili, the national language of Tanzania, contribute to a rapid erosion of the linguistic and ethnic identity of the Akie, as the people themselves are well aware. The present project aims at documenting the Akie language, which is virtually unknown. The project will involve two core researchers, the principal applicant (PA) being Karsten Legère, Universität Wien, and the co-applicant (CA) Christa König, Universität Frankfurt. Both have extensive experience of language documentation in East Africa, and both have contributed to the documentation of endangered African languages in Kenya, Tanzania and Namibia. Whereas the PA has contributed mainly to the documentation of Tanzanian Bantu languages, the PA has contributed to the description of the Maa language (which was the topic of her M.A. and Ph.D. dissertations). In addition, the project will involve intensive cooperation with and participation of colleagues in East Africa, mostly of the University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This participation will involve such domains as linguistics, history, sociology, and musicology. Finally, the project will also involve a Ph.D. student of the University of Dar es Salaam, and a number of Tanzanian field assistants, most of them being Akie people. At the center of documentation work will be the (manual, audio, and video) recording of texts of different genres, conversations, folktales, fables, songs, oral traditions, proverbs, riddles, etc..A second component of field research will be devoted to lexical documentation of semantic fields, in particular of kinship terms, body parts, material culture and artifacts, traditional economy (hunting and gathering), toponyms, greetings, etc. Various special documentation studies within the project will deal with the intimate interaction of Akie people as hunter-gatherers with nature (bees and gathering honey, plant names and uses), gender based issues (food and its preparation, child care and traditional medicine, initiation rites). Furthermore, the project will aim at devising a practical orthography of the Akie language and at preparing a bilingual Akie – Maa dictionary. The original Akie texts to be collected will be edited and translated into the national language Swahili. The project is designed for a two-years’ period. In the first and the second year, both the PA and the CA will be carrying out field research in the Akie-speaking area, while field work is restricted to a shorter research visit to Tanzania.
  • Content
    • Genre : Ritual and Religion
    • SubGenre : Ritual/religious texts
    • SubGenre : Performance
    • Task : marriage
    • Modalities :
    • Subject :
    • CommunicationContext
      • Interactivity : interactive
      • PlanningType : spontaneous
      • Involvement : non-elicited
      • SocialContext : Public
      • EventStructure : Dialogue
      • Channel : Unspecified
    • Content_Languages
      • Content_Language
        • Id : ISO639-3:oki
        • Name : Akie
        • Dominant : Unspecified
        • SourceLanguage : Unspecified
        • TargetLanguage : Unspecified
    • descriptions
      • Description : Wedding ceremony and feast afterwards with singing
  • Actors
    • descriptions
      • Description : Actor outside
    • Actor
      • Role : Speaker/Signer
      • Name : Nevumba Ramathani
      • FullName : Ramaphani
      • Code :
      • FamilySocialRole : Wife
      • EthnicGroup : Akie
      • BirthDate : 1970-01-01
      • Sex : Female
      • Education : no
      • Anonymized : false
      • Age
        • ExactAge
          • years : 45
      • Contact
        • Name : Nevumba
        • Address : Gitu
      • descriptions
        • Description : married to Nkoiseyyo Kalisya, 8 children, Gitu, all children speek Akie, doughter of Ramaphani from Jungu, the blind old man Note: the birth date given is an approximation - the exat date is unknown
      • Actor_Languages
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:mas
          • Name : Maasai
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:swa
          • Name : Swahili
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:ngp
          • Name : Ngulu
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:oki
          • Name : Akie
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
    • Actor
      • Role : Speaker/Signer
      • Name : Neyyollai
      • FullName : Neyyollai Kesilet
      • Code :
      • FamilySocialRole : Aunt of Majuma
      • EthnicGroup : Akie/Kisankare
      • BirthDate : 1984-01-01
      • Sex : Female
      • Education : no school
      • Anonymized : false
      • Age
        • ExactAge
          • years : 40
      • Contact
        • Name : Neyyollai
        • Address : Mpogoi
      • descriptions
        • Description : in Mpogoi at the wedding, no children, three husbands Note: the birth date given is an approximation - the exat date is unknown
      • Actor_Languages
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:swa
          • Name : Swahili
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:ziw
          • Name : Zigula
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:oki
          • Name : Akie
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:mas
          • Name : Maasai
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
    • Actor
      • Role : Speaker/Signer
      • Name : Kusunkwa
      • FullName : Kusunkwa Letoi
      • Code :
      • FamilySocialRole : Bahati's mother in law
      • EthnicGroup : Akie
      • BirthDate : 1967-01-01
      • Sex : Female
      • Education : no school
      • Anonymized : false
      • Age
        • ExactAge
          • years : 50
      • Contact
        • Name : Kusunkwa
        • Address : Jungu
      • descriptions
        • Description : mother in law of Bahati married to Gumbo Mwarabu, seven children, doughter of the blind Ramathani from Jungu today together with FreddGogo from Jungu, does not live any longer with Gumbo Mwarabu Note: the birth date given is an approximation - the exat date is unknown
      • Actor_Languages
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:mas
          • Name : Maasai
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:swa
          • Name : Swahili
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:ziw
          • Name : Zigula
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:oki
          • Name : Akie
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
    • Actor
      • Role : Speaker/Signer
      • Name : Kapunkuru
      • FullName : Kapunkuru Ntopille
      • Code :
      • FamilySocialRole : Neigbhour of Bahati
      • EthnicGroup : Akie
      • BirthDate : 1965-01-01
      • Sex : Male
      • Education : 7 years of formal education
      • Anonymized : false
      • Age
        • ExactAge
          • years : 55
      • Contact
        • Name : Kapunkuru
        • Address : Gitu
      • descriptions
        • Description : Great hunter, married to Muntet Sooyyai, has a great knowledge of Akie culture Note: the birth date given is an approximation - the exat date is unknown
      • Actor_Languages
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:mas
          • Name : Maasai
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:swa
          • Name : Swahili
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:ngp
          • Name : Ngulu
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:oki
          • Name : Akie
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
    • Actor
      • Role : Speaker/Signer
      • Name : Nkoiseyyo
      • FullName : Nkoiseyyo Kalisya
      • Code :
      • FamilySocialRole : Hunter
      • EthnicGroup : Akie
      • BirthDate : 1955-01-01
      • Sex : Male
      • Education : 7 years of formal education
      • Anonymized : false
      • Age
        • ExactAge
          • years : 55
      • Contact
        • Name : Nenkishon
        • Address : Gitu
      • descriptions
        • Description : Nkoiseyyo is a family father with many children. He is one of two Akie who know how to read and write. He has a huge traditional knowledge in theory and practice Note: the birth date given is an approximation - the exat date is unknown
      • Actor_Languages
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:mas
          • Name : Maasai
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:swa
          • Name : Swahili
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:ngp
          • Name : Ngulu
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:oki
          • Name : Akie
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
    • Actor
      • Role : Speaker/Signer
      • Name : Nevumba Karuwa
      • FullName : Nevumba Karuwa
      • Code :
      • FamilySocialRole : Young Woman
      • EthnicGroup : Akie/Kisankare
      • BirthDate : 1990-01-01
      • Sex : Female
      • Education : no
      • Anonymized : false
      • Age
        • ExactAge
          • years : 30
      • Contact
        • Name : Nevumba
        • Address : Gitu
      • descriptions
        • Description : Nevumba is the second wife of Nkuyaki. Originally she is born in a Kisankare speaking area. Note: the birth date given is an approximation - the exat date is unknown
      • Actor_Languages
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:mas
          • Name : Maasai
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:swa
          • Name : Swahili
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:ngp
          • Name : Ngulu
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:oki
          • Name : Akie
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
    • Actor
      • Role : Speaker/Signer
      • Name : Gumbo
      • FullName : Gumbo Mwarabu
      • Code :
      • FamilySocialRole : Bahati's father in law
      • EthnicGroup : Akie
      • BirthDate : 1957-01-01
      • Sex : Male
      • Education : 2 years of school
      • Anonymized : false
      • Age
        • ExactAge
          • years : 60
      • Contact
        • Name : Gumbo
        • Address : Mpogoi
      • descriptions
        • Description : Father of Nevumba Gumbo (wife of Bahati), married to Kusunkwa Letoi, seven children Note: the birth date given is an approximation - the exat date is unknown
      • Actor_Languages
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:mas
          • Name : Maasai
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:swa
          • Name : Swahili
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:ziw
          • Name : Zigula
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:oki
          • Name : Akie
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
    • Actor
      • Role : Speaker/Signer
      • Name : Ngunnyu
      • FullName : Oche
      • Code :
      • FamilySocialRole : Bestman at Bahati's wedding
      • EthnicGroup : Akie
      • BirthDate : 1965-01-01
      • Sex : Male
      • Education : none
      • Anonymized : false
      • Age
        • ExactAge
          • years : 50
      • Contact
        • Name : Ngunnyu
        • Address : Lalasa
      • descriptions
        • Description : Ngunnyu married to a Nguu woman, seven children, no school Note: the birth date given is an approximation - the exat date is unknown
      • Actor_Languages
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:mas
          • Name : Maasai
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:swa
          • Name : Swahili
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:ngp
          • Name : Ngulu
          • MotherTongue : false
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
        • Actor_Language
          • Id : ISO639-3:oki
          • Name : Akie
          • MotherTongue : true
          • PrimaryLanguage : false
  • Resources
    • MediaFile
      • Type : audio
      • Format : audio/x-wav
      • Size : 215408780
    • MediaFile
      • Type : video
      • Format : video/mpeg
      • Size : 537286656
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