Y15_2_Pana_00006

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Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0010-9C09-1

Title: Imelata nd Apeñ playing

Date created: 2015-06-18

Location

Continent: Oceania

Country: Papua New Guinea

Region: East Sepik

Address: Kandomgunda camp

Project

ID: IPF0221

Name: Meakambut Corpus

Description: The Meakambut are semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, numbering about 60, moving between camps and rock shelters in their mountainous territory in East Sepik Province in Papua New Guinea. As one of very few semi-nomadic groups in Melanesia, they are key for understanding the (socio)linguistic situation which would have prevailed before agriculture. Apart from basic word-lists there has been no prior research on the language. Using observational filming to supplement basic linguistic and ethnographic documentation, this project provides audio-visual documentation and analysis of a variety of Meakambut speech practices, embedded in rich ethnographic data.