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CH17Aug0603S1

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Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0008-748D-6

Title: Ten short comic Chachi stories

Description: This is a video recording, transcribed and translated into Spanish and formatted into ELAN containing ten short comic Chachi stories told by a young man in the Chachi community of Tsejpi. Most of the stories deal with funny sexual situations. Briefly the stories concern: 1) A man discovers his wife has a lover and he gets revenge by putting glue in a strategic spot; 2) A black man goes to the US but has no money to return. He decides to pass himself off as a female prostitute with comic results; 3) A rabbit and a fox get into an argument with the rabbit prevailing in the end; 4) An old man wants to experience a train ride; but is confused and mistakes a black man for the train; 5) The animals have a fiesta, but run out of liquor and because the only sober member is a snail, they send him off to get the liquor with unsuccessful results; 6) A group of animals want to trap and exterminate a rabbit who is stealing all their food. Because the bear is a cousin to the rabbit they pretend the bear has died to lure the rabbit into their trap. The rabbit comes to the funeral but refuses to come close saying he knows the bear is not dead because he is not farting. 7) A parrot mistakes a woman's vagina for a wound. 8) A woman tries to hide a foul-mouthed parrot in her skirt with unsuccessful results. 9) A parrot lies, telling a man that his wife is having relationships with other men. The wife first tries to kill him by freezing him. When that doesn't work she sews up his anus. After a year his stomach is completely swollen and going off to die he encounters a pregnant woman who the parrot believes had committed the same sin he has. 10) A horse with an extremely large sexual appendage is grossing out the police and scandalizing the community. When the owner finally gets the horse to withdraw the appendage the police ask how the owner did it and the owner finally reveals he had frightened the horse by essentially insulting the police.

Date created: 2006-08-17

Location

Continent: Americas

Country: Ecuador

Region: Americas

Address: Tsejpi, 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.

Topics

Topic: sexual situations

Topic: glue

Topic: prostitute

Topic: rabbit

Topic: fox

Topic: train ride

Topic: Animals

Topic: fiesta

Topic: liquor

Topic: snail

Topic: Food

Topic: bear

Topic: parrot

Topic: horse

Topic: police

Content

Genre: comic story

Languages

Language

Name: Cha'palaa

Language

Name: Cayapa

Media Files

Filename: CH17Aug0603S1.mpeg

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0008-748E-4

File type: Video

Access: S

Filename: CH17Aug0603S1.wav

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0008-748F-4

File type: Audio

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Written Resources

Filename: CH17Aug0603S1.eaf

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0008-7490-2

File type: ELAN

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Filename: CH17Aug0603S1.imdi

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0008-7491-F

File type: Other

Access: S

Filename: CH17Aug0603S1.pfsx

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0008-7492-D

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