OLAC Record oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1055451

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Title:		First interview session held in Kelleng on Bati's cultural life
		Kell-Anthropology_01
		A Documentation of Bati Language and Oral Traditions
Contributor (consultant):		MBOCK
		BONG
		MBESSI MAKONDO
Contributor (researcher):		NGUE UM
Coverage:		Cameroon
Date:		2016-07-25
Description:		The interview takes place at the Kelleng Deputy Chief's residence at Mbog Bikom, a quarter of Kelleng which is located on the Kelleng-Kikot road. The research team have earlier requested to be granted an interview with Bong, one of the elders of the village. The interview is lead by Mbessi Makondo Gilbert, and questions elvolve around the history of Bati people, their historical relationships with their closest neighbors, the history of Mbombole, Bati's identity and belief, among others.
		The project to Document aspects of Bati language and oral traditions is an original idea of Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso, who had initially surveyed the Bati speech area as part of a pilot research project granted by the Ministry of Scientific Research and Technological Innovation of the Republic of Cameroon. Based on the results of this pilot research which have revealed a situation of critical endangerment of Bati language and ancestral practices, the idea to submit a major documentation project to ELDP has matured. The project has eventually been submitted during the 2015 funding round with Dr Emmanuel Ngué Um as Principal Investigator, and Dr Emmanuel-Moselly Makasso as co-applicant. The project started in October 1st, 2015, and will run till the 30th of September in 2018.
		The interview is conducted in Bati (Kelleng variety). There are casual shifts to Basaa, namely when the researcher addresses the other participants. French is also used when the host adresses his children.
		Mbok's residence is host to the recording session. He is not the main consultant, but he sometimes contributes to the interaction. He is a nephew to the main consultant for this session, who is Bong. Mbock Michel is a traditional custodian, and is recognized the title of 'Mbambaga'. Mbambaga is a priest in the Bati-Mpoo-Basaa shared religion, who is charged with performing purification rituals, in case of death resulting from blood pouring.
		Bong Bong is one of the village elders who is credited with sound knowledge of the historical, cultural, social and religious life of Bati as a community. He is a widow, and suffers from blindness. He was born in Kelleng, but later on moved to Yaoundé, where he had lived for many years before coming back to his native village.
		Mbessi Makondo Gilbert as acted as one of the key informants for the research team during the first year of the project. Due to his extensive multilingualism coupled with a high sense of public network and relations, he has assisted the research team in most of their whereabouts throughout the various consultants who have agreed to lend themselves to research exercises. In some cases, Mbessi Gilbert has acted as the interviewer. This approach has been privileged in surveys dealing with anthropological, cultural and religous aspects. He had been trained by the research team in the monitoring of interviews, and in questionnaire administration, and has proven to be a talented and committed research assistant.
		Emmanuel Ngué Um is the Principal Investigator for the Bati project. He is mainly employed at the University of Yaoundé one where he holds the position of Senior Lectuer of Linguistics, in the Departement of Cameroonian Languages and Cultures at the Higher Teacher Training School. Ngué Um is also Associate Researcher at CERDOTOLA, where he is charged with the responsibility of Archive Manager for ALORA (Archive of Languages and Oral Resources of Africa).
Format:		audio/x-wav
		image/jpeg
		video/mp4
		text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1055451
		MDP0332
Identifier (URI):		https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1055451%23
Publisher:		Ngué Um Emmanuel
		International Center for Research and Documentation on African Traditions and Languages (CERDOTOLA)
Subject:		Interview
		semi-guided interview
		Anthropology
Type:		Audio
		Image
		Video
OLAC Info
Archive:		Endangered Languages Archive
Description:		http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OaiIdentifier:		oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1055451
DateStamp:		2018-01-11
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Citation:		MBOCK (consultant); BONG (consultant); MBESSI MAKONDO (consultant); NGUE UM (researcher). 2016-07-25. Ngué Um Emmanuel.