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LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara
Title Sangara Training Session
Description This is a series of training sessions for future short interviews made by the Sangara subcommittee of the Nen language committee, under Nick Evans’ supervision. The Sangara subcommittee comprises Sambo Bamaga (Bamaga is Qakal’s Brother to different Fathers), Pastor Blag, Ebig Gubae and Gerida Rami, Joseph (Teräb) Blag and Bolo Idaba were also in attendance. Jimmy Nébni was also present.

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

Audio recordings:
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-01.wav: Warm-up.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-02.wav: Joseph interviews Sambo.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-03.wav: Sambo interviews Blag.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-04.wav: Blag interviews Teräb.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-05.wav: Ebig interviews Geroma.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-06.wav: Geroma interviews Sambo.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-07.wav: Geroma interviews Sambo 2.

Video recordings:
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-01.mp4: Blag practice interview.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-02.mp4: Ebig practice interview.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-03.mp4: Ebig practice interview Geroma.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-04.mp4: Geroma practice interview.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-05.mp4: Geroma practice interview Sambo.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-06.mp4: Joseph practice interview.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-07.mp4: Joseph practice interview Ebig.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-08.mp4: Sambo practice interview.
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-09.mp4: Sambo practice interview Blag.


Photos:
LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara-img07~img21 are not photos of the training session specifically, but instead photos of the Sangara interviews whose categorisation is not specified.
Origination date 2014-09-24
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Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/LSNG14/TrainingSession_Sangara
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Shubo Li
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Originating university Australian National University
Operator Shubo Li
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DOI 10.26278/myzb-c552
Cite as Shubo Li (collector), 2014. Sangara Training Session. MPEG/MP4/MXF/VND.WAV/JPEG/TIFF. LSNG14-TrainingSession_Sangara at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/myzb-c552
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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.
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