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Recorded Events

Recorded Event: Interview with Bernard Narokobi

Type: Interview

Primary Speech Variety: English

Secondary Speech Varieties: Tok Pisin

Date: 1998-09-18 Location: Wautogik Duration: 185 minutes

Description: On the history of Wautogik village

Participants

  1. Felix Natopol · Secondary, (M : c 70) Wautogik ~ fluent Arapesh speaker, left school after grade 1
  2. Lise Dobrin · Researcher, (F : 32) ~ American linguist, born Chicago 1966. Graduate student (linguistics, University of Chicago).
  3. Ira Bashkow · Researcher, (M : c 36) ~ husband of Lise Dobrin, anthropologist
  4. Bernard Narokobi · Primary, (M : c 56) Wautogik ~ Fluent Arapesh speaker, very good English, powerful modern leader, law degree from U Sydney, opposition leader of Parliament at the time of recording
  5. Joseph Sallun · Secondary, (M : c 65) Wautogik ~ fluent Arapesh speaker, worked as teacher/headmaster

Tapes

Cassette cover scans (click to enlarge)

tape 22 (A and B) tape 23 (A and B)

WAV/ELAN Files

  1. InterviewWithBernard1
  2. InterviewWithBernard3
  3. InterviewWithBernard2
  4. InterviewWithBernard4