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Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/0fdb2527-c76b-4721-8e44-51ac12c156dd

Title: Casting of spells to prevent stealing

Description: The narrator talks about some experiences they had as young people growing up. There was a man in their neighborhood who grew many fruit trees and placed spells on them to prevent thieves from stealing.

Date created: 2014-08-29

Location

Continent: Africa

Country: Cameroon

Region: North-West

Address: North-West

Project

ID: SG0224

Name: 0363-SG0224

Description: This collection documents the language of Babanki traditional ritual performances. Babanki is an endangered Grassfields language spoken in Babanki Tungo and Big Babanki, northwest of Cameroon. The language of rituals contains poetic forms, lexical items and grammatical structures not found in everyday Babanki speech. Unfortunately, these special speech forms are threatened by the strong influence of modernism and especially Christianity which have caused the number of people who still engage in ritual performances to drop drastically. Consequently, the Babanki cultural values inherent in the ritual performances are no longer cherished and transmitted to younger generations.

Topics

Topic: Spells

Content

Genre: Narrative

Languages

Language

Name: Babanki

Description: Subject Language

Language

Name: English

Description: Working Language

Actor

Full Name: Pius Akumbu

Role: researcher

Actor

Full Name: Victor Vishi

Role: speaker

Media Files

Filename: babanki001.MP4

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/e25415a5-e006-4a6f-9d92-47dda8a2e539

File type: Video

Access: O

Filename: babanki001.wav

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/6a9ebe33-8724-4d62-8721-7ba245933635

File type: Audio

Access: O

Written Resources

Filename: babanki001_20230118.eaf

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/44326f14-b3ab-4ca4-ae42-b46e0f8bd0be

File type: ELAN

Access: O

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