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oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1279516

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Title:Okiek Forests and Honey Stores
okiek_forests001
A Preliminary Documentation of the Okiek Language of Kenya
Contributor (annotator):Aron
Shadrack
Contributor (consultant):Kirasi
Contributor (depositor):Jane
Contributor (recorder):Patrick
Contributor (researcher):Jane
Contributor (speaker):Kitakita
Contributor (translator):Duncan
Coverage:Kenya
Date:2017-02-09
Description:The speaker talks about the forests the Okiek had and says that each one of them had a name. He also talks about places within the forest where each family kept honey. He also says that they respected each others honey and no one would touch honey which did not belong to them. He also talks about harvesting honey and how a honey granary looked like. As he speaks, one of the listeners (Kirasi) who appears in the video with him prompts him to give more information. He laments that there are no trees that attract rain. He also talks about hunting and briefly covers several other topics.
Jane Oduor is the Okiek language documentor.
In this project the actor is a consultant as well as a community mobilizer
He is a father and grandfather to many.
Patrick works within the Okiek community as a social worker and community mobilizer. In this project he also assisted in community mobilization, video recording, translating and annotating.
Duncan is waiting to go to college. He completed secondary school education.
Format:audio/x-wav
video/mp4
text/x-pfsx+xml
text/x-eaf+xml
Identifier:oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1279516
Identifier (URI):https://lat1.lis.soas.ac.uk/ds/asv?openpath=MPI1279516%23
Publisher:Jane Akinyi Ngala Oduor
University of Nairobi
Subject:Discourse
Okiek language
Subject (ISO639):oki
Type:Audio
Video

OLAC Info

Archive:  Endangered Languages Archive
Description:  http://www.language-archives.org/archive/soas.ac.uk
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OAI Info

OaiIdentifier:  oai:soas.ac.uk:MPI1279516
DateStamp:  2019-04-01
GetRecord:  OAI-PMH request for simple DC format

Search Info

Citation: Jane (researcher); Jane (depositor); Kirasi (consultant); Kitakita (speaker); Patrick (recorder); Duncan (translator); Aron (annotator); Shadrack (annotator). 2017-02-09. Jane Akinyi Ngala Oduor.
Terms: area_Africa country_KE iso639_oki

Inferred Metadata

Country: Kenya
Area: Africa


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