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Recorded Events
Recorded Event: Ehiwac
Type: Explanation/Procedure
Primary Speech Variety: Mountain Arapesh: Wautogik variety
Secondary Speech Varieties: Tok Pisin
Date: nd, follows 1998-09-18 in notebook Location: Wautogik Duration: 4:45
Description: How to appease marsalai spirits who make people sick
Note: Dictated description of how people interact with spirits
Note: notebook: p.102
Note: Text dictated by the primary speaker. Transcript read aloud by Andrew Moutu, Charlottesville, VA, February 2007
Participants
- Lise Dobrin · Researcher, (F : 32) ~ American linguist, born Chicago 1966. Graduate student (linguistics, University of Chicago).
- Andrew Moutu · Reader, (M : c 40) Wautogik ~ born in Rabaul, studied at UPNG, worked at the PNG National Museum, PhD in Anthropology from Cambridge. Speaks Arapesh well, but not fully fluent.
- Matthew Rahiria · Primary, (M : c 60) Wautogik ~ fluent Arapesh speaker, 2 years teacher's college, worked teaching school and as a headmaster before falling sick and retiring early
WAV/ELAN Files
- Ehiwac