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parsi129_Stove_Day

Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/0bfb2f25-6dba-4093-9cbc-278b48788578

Title: Stove Day

Description: Jhangu explains the preparations made on "Chula-nu Varas" (The Stove Day), popularily considered to be the birthday of the cooking fire, which Parsis celebrate by reciting special prayer formulas and decorating kitchen fires in their houses. Usha is also present behind the camera and comes in with some directions. Note, that the story is narrated in PG, whereas Usha's brief intervention appers in Marathi, the usual language of interraction between her and Jhangu. Recording and ELAN transcription is made by Anton with Jhangu's help. Transriptions uses IAST-based ISO 15919 for Gujarati script. ‎The title however uses 'ch" istead of IAST-based ISO 15919 'cʰ' for IPA [tʃʰ] phoneme more frequently used by the speakers' community. A detailed instruction on the numbres of customs attached to this day can be found on the facebook page of the Godavara Gamadia Agiary (Fire Temple) in Mumbai https://www.facebook.com/1044631452273493/posts/chula-nu-varas-birthday-of-the-hearth-firedaepadar-roj-adar-mahino-21st-april-20/2643346049068684/A contexted description can be found on pp. 22-24 in Kreyenbroek, Philip G. and Shehnaz Neville Munshi. 2001. Living Zoroastrianism: Urban ‎Parsis Speak about Their Religion. Psychology Press.‎ More information on Atash Niyayesh ("Litany to Fire") mentioned in the recording is availbale at Encyclodædia Iranica article http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/atas-niyayisn-the-fifth-in-a-group-of-five-zoroastrian-prayers-niyayisn-q

Date created: 2020-04-20

Location

Continent: Asia

Country: India

Region: Maharashtra

Address: Mumbai

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: Tradition

Keywords

Keyword: Fire

Content

Genre: Formulaic_discourse

Languages

Language

Name: Parsi

Description: Content Language

Language

Name: English

Description: Working Language

Actor

Full Name: Jehangir Dotiwalla

Role: participant

Actor

Full Name: Usha Shinde

Role: participant

Actor

Full Name: Anton Zykov

Role: researcher

Media Files

Filename: parsi129_Stove_Day.mp4

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/b08c7097-e3f2-4715-a06d-4c82a2a20c0e

File type: Video

Access: O

Filename: parsi129_Stove_Day.wav

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/cb4cba0d-eafc-4b1b-a3ad-60f280c0a9b3

File type: Audio

Access: O

Written Resources

Filename: parsi129_Stove_Day.eaf

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/95989681-4969-42d7-a473-ba8447354b9f

File type: ELAN

Access: O

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