dernier repas par le forgeron avant l'enterrement

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dernier repas par le forgeron avant l'enterrement

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0011-109D-D

Title: last food for the deceased

Description: the video shows the role of the smiths in the burial ceremony. the women of the smith pays a key role during this phase. she brings the food to the smith who conducted the divination ceremony. He presents the food to the stones and the food is shared among the smiths. this is to tell the corpse that it its last last to be with the family members during the food time

Date created: 2015-11-28

Location

Continent: Africa

Country: Cameroon

Project

ID: IGS0267

Name: 0367-IGS0267

Description: Cuvok is a Central Chadic language spoken in the Far North Region of Cameroon. Tchouvok traditional society pivots around blacksmiths, who play a number of other key social roles: doctor, metalworker, mortician, mind-reader, and midwife. With the introduction of Islam, Christianity and modernism, the knowledge possessed by the blacksmith is no longer transmitted to the younger generation. This documentation project is integrated into my PhD research, which aims at a usage-based grammatical description of Cuvok. Much of my corpus will be composed of video recordings. Ethnographic notes will complement my annotated texts.