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Memories about the traditional Na religion. The speaker does not know about the detailed contents of the rituals ; this …
Memories about the traditional Na religion. The speaker does not know about the detailed contents of the rituals ; this is a description of the occasions on which the priest was invited to conduct rituals. The short title of the document is the romanized (Pinyin) transcription of the term used in Chinese to refer to these ritual practitioners : 达巴.
About an uncle who did trade with a caravan, at a time when trade flourished in the area. This document has correspondin…
About an uncle who did trade with a caravan, at a time when trade flourished in the area. This document has corresponding video files.; Au sujet d'un oncle qui faisait du commerce par caravane.; 马帮:关于20世纪30-50年代该地区蓬勃发展的贸易
Tone Tutorial: the investigator read tone patterns reported in the monograph about tone in Yongning Na (Michaud 2017), w…
Tone Tutorial: the investigator read tone patterns reported in the monograph about tone in Yongning Na (Michaud 2017), which at the time of recording was nearing completion. The consultant was asked to check whether those productions were correct and intelligible way. This was one of several methods for verifying the f…
Dog: How dog and man exchanged their lifespan. This document has corresponding video files.
Dog: How dog and man exchanged their lifespan. This document has corresponding video files.
The speaker just remembered how 'south' could be said in na, so we recorded the 4 cardinal points on the fly.
The speaker just remembered how 'south' could be said in na, so we recorded the 4 cardinal points on the fly.
Recording of noun compounds, addition of ‘hair/feathers’ and ‘pen/nest’ heads. Also some extra erbs and rarer nouns in c…
Recording of noun compounds, addition of ‘hair/feathers’ and ‘pen/nest’ heads. Also some extra erbs and rarer nouns in combination with them. The questionnaires were sent beforehand to the interviewer, who presented the verbs to the speaker for elicitation.
Hearth: about the significance of the hearth in Na (Mosuo) culture. This is the eighth and last of a set of short interv…
Hearth: about the significance of the hearth in Na (Mosuo) culture. This is the eighth and last of a set of short interviews given on the same day by the consultant. (With video.) (This is the audio component, collected with a lavalier microphone.)
This recording narrates how a young man who studied Tibetan Buddhism in Lhasa came back empty-handed, without a gift for…
This recording narrates how a young man who studied Tibetan Buddhism in Lhasa came back empty-handed, without a gift for his mother ; on the way, he plucked a tooth from a dead horse and told his mother it was a god’s tooth. His mother marvelled at this extraordinary gift and prayed three times a day to the tooth. Her …
Full frame sentence is 'the girl OBJ to_carry', and the set of items corresponds to the semantically compatible items, t…
Full frame sentence is 'the girl OBJ to_carry', and the set of items corresponds to the semantically compatible items, taken in list prev. elicited in ISOL
Prohibitive+Verb: Verbs of all tone categories preceded by the prohibitive. This set includes some reduplicated verbs.
Prohibitive+Verb: Verbs of all tone categories preceded by the prohibitive. This set includes some reduplicated verbs.