CH20Jun0502S1

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CH20Jun0502S1

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0008-74B4-C

Title: Encounters with 'pillujumu'; traditional stories

Description: This is a thirty-seven minute video recording, transcribed and translated into Spanish in which a group of Cafetal residents gather in a schoolhouse to converse. In this recording they continue their discussion of encounters with 'pillujumu' an evil spirit that lives in the river (see CH20Jun0501). A young boy discusses with some detail his encounter with a 'pillujumu'. In addition another resident discusses another encounter. A recent drowning is discussed and an older resident tells two traditional stories, one concerning the devil and another concerning the people who do not have assholes.

Date created: 2005-06-20

Location

Continent: Americas

Country: Ecuador

Region: Americas

Address: Cafetal, Esmeraldas

Project

ID: FTG0100

Name: 0086-FTG0100

Description: The Cha’palaa materials are the product of documentary, descriptive and ethnographic research carried out since 2005 by Dr. Simeon Floyd, Dr. Connie Dickinson and several native speaker consultants, primarily Johnny Pianchiche. The major goals of this project have been to generate a corpus of video, audio and text data documenting linguistic and cultural aspects of the Chachi people and their language Cha’palaa. Pilot research in the Cayapas River area by Floyd and Dickinson began in summer of 2005 and included field trips for data collection as well as data processing and transcription in the city of Quito. Over the following years Floyd made several research trips to the Cayapas River, and in 2008-2009 conducted his dissertation research in the area. The specific goal of the dissertation project was to video record a series of interviews both with Chachi and Afro-Ecuadorian people about social categories, race and ethnicity. In addition, Floyd has collected audio and video data documenting a range of speech situations including informal household conversation, speech genres like traditional stories and lullabies, community events like Christmas and Holy Week festivals, and more. In addition, a number of audio data sets of responses to elicitation stimuli have been recorded as a contribution to the grammatical description of Cha’palaa. Ongoing research will focus on adding further cultural documentation to the corpus (handcrafts, hunting and fishing, agriculture and plant usage, shamanism and traditional curing, etc.) and of expanding the grammatical description with eventual goals of producing a grammar and dictionary. From 2010 to 2013 Floyd will collect and process data for a project studying language in interaction coordinated at the Max Planck Institute in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. Funding for this research was provided by the Hans Rausing Endangered Language Program (to Dr. Dickinson), the National Science Foundation , the Fulbright-Hays Program and the University of Texas at Austin (the latter three to Dr. Floyd). Members of the Chachi communities of Tsejpi, Zapallo Grande, Santa Maria, Cafetal and other towns on the Cayapas, Zapallo and Barbudo river have provided important assistance for this research. Thanks both to the funding agencies and to the community members for the essential support they have provided.