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oai:www.mpi.nl:lat_1839_00_0000_0000_0005_6A1E_5

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Title:belis_negotia
Belis negotiations
Contributor (compiler):Maurício Belo/Sabu-Raku
Contributor (researcher):Nikolaus Himmelmann
Contributor (speaker):João
Saturlino
Coverage:East Timor
Description:Exchanging "bride price (belis/barlake)". In this instance, which is probably typical, the exchange process called belis in the local Malay (barlake in Tetum) basically involves three parties: A) Lamberto and his male relatives (brothers, sons, newphews and grand-sons); B) Lamberto's sisters and their husbands; and C) the male relatives of Lamberto's wife (her brothers etc). A asks B to pay open debts incurred in the marriage process and basically passes on everything to C. C is generally not an active part in the recorded negotations but rather sits at the back of the house and listens for what A and B come up with (A and C have settled on what their respective debts are earlier on).____________________ The current negotiations are mostly concerned with a sword which is first rejected by A and then also by C, both claiming that the night before (obviously in informal prenegotiations) one had agreed to make a buffalo part of the deal and the sword is not of the quality which counts as a buffalo equivalent (as original swords from Makasar do, for example).____________ the recording starts some time in the middle of the exchange which has been going on for some time - it's ca. 7 o'clock Sunday morning, the speakers having been up all night (this recording follows /aldin_pesta/ which occurred about an hour earlier, says MB) no continuous recording but stop and go, especially the video recording; WMMBAC30NOV0202.wav stopped at 5:40, ca. 31:00 (more than half minute)
Format:audio/x-wav
video/x-mpeg2
video/x-mpeg1
text/x-toolbox-text
Identifier (URI):https://hdl.handle.net/1839/00-0000-0000-0005-6A1E-5
Is Part Of:DoBeS archive : Waimaa team
Language:Waima'a
Language (ISO639):wmh
Publisher:The Language Archive, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
Subject:Waima'a language
Subject (ISO639):wmh
Type (DCMI):Sound
MovingImage
Text

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Archive:  The Language Archive
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OAI Info

OaiIdentifier:  oai:www.mpi.nl:lat_1839_00_0000_0000_0005_6A1E_5
DateStamp:  2018-04-06
GetRecord:  OAI-PMH request for simple DC format

Search Info

Citation: Nikolaus Himmelmann (researcher); João (speaker); Saturlino (speaker); Maurício Belo/Sabu-Raku (compiler). n.d. DoBeS archive : Waimaa team.
Terms: area_Asia country_TL dcmi_MovingImage dcmi_Sound dcmi_Text iso639_wmh

Inferred Metadata

Country: East Timor
Area: Asia


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