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Session Information

Session Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0004-5AA1-9

Title: Afflictions from theft

Description: An eye witness account of how people suffered from afflictions because they stole and how they were relieved. The session contains a video recording only.

Date created: 2014-08-29

Location

Continent: Africa

Country: Cameroon

Region: Northwest

Address: Tingeh Quarter, Kejom Ketinguh

Project

ID: SG0224

Name: 0363-SG0224

Description: This project 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: Theft

Keywords

Keyword: Affliction

Keyword: Healing

Content

Genre: Ritual/religious texts

Languages

Language

Name: Babanki

Description: Subject language

Actor

Full Name: Victor Veshi

Role: Consultant

Actor

Full Name: Pius Akumbu

Role: Researcher

Actor

Full Name: Esther Phubon

Role: Researcher

Media Files

Filename: babanki_theft-illnesses.mp4

File handle: http://hdl.handle.net/2196/00-0000-0000-0004-56BF-C

File type: Video

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