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LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1
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Title Erbowag Traning Session 1
Description This is the first of the two series of training sessions made by the Erbowag subcommittee of the Nen language committee, under Nick Evans' supervision. The Erbowag subcommittee comprises Minung (Qbr) Blba, Doa Teräb, Joshua (Wenembu), and Grmbo Blba (a further female member, Kandr Sobae, will join the second recording session for gender balance). Jimmy Nébni was also present.

N.B. The audio recordings and video recordings do not align.

Audio recordings:
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-01.wav: Jimmy explaining of why coconuts are significant.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-02.wav: Jimmy explaining purpose of today's session.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-03.wav: Jimmy explaining use of cannon legria video.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-04.wav: Jimmy explaining view finder.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-05.wav: Jimmy explaining standby mode.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-06.wav: Jimmy explaining how you monitor Zoom.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-07.wav: Jimmy explaining how to turn off Zoom recorder.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-08.wav: Free discussion of interview techniques.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-09.wav: Joshua interviews Doa.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-10.wav: Doa interviews Joshua.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-11.wav: Grmbo interviews Minung part 1.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-12.wav: Grmbo interviews Minung part 2.

Video recordings:
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-01.mxf: Joshua interviews Doa.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-02.mxf: Doa interviews Joshua.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-03.mxf: Grmbo interviews Minung.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-04.mxf: Minung interviews Grmbo.

Photos:
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-img07, LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-img08, and LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1-img09 are not photos of the training session specifically, but instead photos of the Erbowag interviews whose categorisation is not specified.
Origination date 2014-09-25
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/LSNG14/TrainingSession_Erbowag_1
URL
Collector
Nicholas Evans
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Language as given Nen
Subject language(s)
Content language(s)
Dialect
Region / village Bimadbn
Originating university Australian National University
Operator Julia Colleen Miller
Data Categories primary text
Data Types MovingImage
Discourse type interactive_discourse
Roles Jimmy Nébni : speaker
Grmbo Blba : speaker
Doa Teräb : speaker
Joshua (Wenembu) : speaker
Minung (Qbr) Blba : speaker
DOI 10.26278/96ye-nn33
Cite as Nicholas Evans (collector), Jimmy Nébni (speaker), Grmbo Blba (speaker), Doa Teräb (speaker), Joshua (Wenembu) (speaker), Minung (Qbr) Blba (speaker), 2014. Erbowag Traning Session 1. MPEG/MP4/MXF/VND.WAV/JPEG/TIFF. LSNG14-TrainingSession_Erbowag_1 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/96ye-nn33
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Collection Information
Collection ID LSNG14
Collection title Languages of Southern New Guinea: Coconut Interviews
Description From cathedrals to dreaming sites, every culture needs its monuments. But the landscape and built culture of southern New Guinea conspire to erase physical memory. In the ever-changing environment of mud, plants, and water, there are no rock formations to serve as durable traces of the past. Wooden houses decay within a decade or two. Garden clearings grow back after a few years. The savannah edge, if not maintained by regular bushfires, is soon recolonized by forest. Against this mutable environment, stability of external memory is given by the coconut trees planted anywhere a plant can grow: beaches, swiddens, old villages, house yards. Almost every coconut palm serves as a tab (sign)—a reminder of stories of garden clearings, resettlements, disputes, pledges, or intentions. For most, there are individuals with the special knowledge needed to tell their stories. These trees form an arboreal history anchored in their durability and in the clear symbolic and practical intentions that accompany each planting. In this paper, I illustrate the trees' mnemonic value, drawing on hundreds of interviews conducted by local interviewers in their own languages—Nen, Nmbo, and Idi. Responding to the flexible interactions between each interviewer and interviewee, they cover many topics, from memories of old gardens, abandoned houses, or temporary periods in other villages, through reconciliations, to girl-abducting teenagers and midlife contraceptives. In presenting this corpus of material, I marry linguistic and anthropological analyses to show how a network of communities, linked by marriage and exchange across language boundaries, uses these living monuments to maintain its histories across a broad range of spokespeople.

Results from these recordings have been written up in the following article:

Evans, Nicholas. "One Thousand and One Coconuts: Growing Memories in Southern New Guinea." The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 32 no. 1, 2020, p. 72-96. Project MUSE, doi:10.1353/cp.2020.0004.
Countries
Papua New Guinea - PG
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Languages
Idi - idi
Nambo - ncm
Nen - nqn
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