parsi152_festive_F

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Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/8c4ca13b-a8da-4d39-8871-8d91e20bbc93

Title: Festive Folksong (Garba)

Description: This is a part of "parsi002" recording* of four Parsi women discussing daily routine matters such as shopping and relationships at a Parsi-only residential block (Bamji Society) in Navsari. During the conversation they start singing a garba (traditional Parsi folksong genre) is sung during Parsi wedding (lagan) or initiation rituals (navjote). Brief description of a Parsi wedding can be found at: https://parsi-times.com/2016/11/parsi-wedding-rituals/More on preparations made for the Parsi navjote: https://zoroastrians.net/2010/04/04/navjote-some-useful-tips/*It was the first recording made for the project in 2018, hence the camera work is so horrible

Date created: 2018-10-16

Location

Continent: Asia

Country: India

Region: Maharashtra

Address: Maharashtra

Project

ID: IGS0323

Name: 0518-IGS0323

Description: The collection contains recordings of the Parsi language (Parsi Gujarati or PG) is spoken exclusively by the Zoroastrian community living in India, most of whom refer to themselves as Parsis. Another sub-group consisting of the descendants of Iranian Zoroastrians who have been arriving mainly to Bombay (now Mumbai) since the late 19th - early 20th century, are knows as Iranis and predominantly speak a variety of Parsi distinguished by specific syntactic and lexical features.The recordings encompass various unique Parsi-Zoroastrian rites de passages: initiation (navjote), marriage (arusi), and funeral (dakhmenashini) rituals, the latter exclusively performed by few hereditary corpse-bearers (khandiyars and nasusalars). The collection also has daily conversations as well naturally generated discourses from difference gender, socio-economic, geographical and age dimensions of the Parsi community.Citation bundle: Zykov, Anton. 2021. Videography-based documentation of the language of Parsis in Gujarat and Maharashtra. London: SOAS, Endangered Languages Archive. URL: https://www.elararchive.org/dk0518/. Accessed on July 2, 2021

Topics

Topic: Celebration

Keywords

Keyword: Festive_ocassion

Content

Genre: Oratory

Languages

File type: ELAN

Access: O

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