pesh_ndn_frh_t_20160418_01

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Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0010-D18D-A

Title: Ceremonia pesh del Wãta

Description: Francisco Hernandez recreates the ritual ceremony made by the wãta. This is the traditional ceremony for the Pesh. Francisco Hernandez makes this ritual as it happened before. There are no more wãta but he participated in this ritual when he was young and he is able to recreate the atmosphere and knows the ritual discourses.

Date created: 2016-04-18

Location

Continent: Americas

Country: Honduras

Region: Departamento de Gracias a Dios

Address: Nuevo Dulce Nombre

Project

ID: MDP0276

Name: Documentation and description of Pesh

Description: The general aim of the MDP0276 project is to document and describe three varieties of Pesh in eight villages, the most northern Chibchan language, and the only one spoken in Honduras. Pesh is classified as an isolate in the Chibchan family; it is the sole language that does not belong to Core Chibchan. Pesh is endangered: it has roughly 500 speakers, of whom 80% are more than 50 years old. Pesh is little described. The project has filled a gap, since no documentation or complete description has been carried out in the past. Various genres have been documented, in particular such endangered speech practices as prayers and ceremonial speech, and narratives related to traditional cooking and medicine. More than 30 hours have been recorded.