Traditional narrative about animal antics

Traditional narrative about animal antics

Description

This a traditional story about a chain reaction of events that sets off when a frog blocks the road and sits down on an ant that in turn bites the frog. From there on, one animal suffers from being disturbed or hurt by another animal, and as a consequence accidentally disturbs or hurts another animal, and so on: the ant disturbs the frog, the frog disturbs the squirrel, the squirrel disturbs the pig, the pig disturbs the bird, the bird disturbs the elephant, the elephant kicks a rock, which then kills the daughter of the king. The king traces back … continued below

Physical Description

1 recording (5 min., 59 sec.)

Creation Information

Konnerth, Linda April 1, 2010.

Context

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Titles

Main Title: Traditional narrative about animal antics
Parallel Title: Chonghokaloso lapen Misorongpo

Description

This a traditional story about a chain reaction of events that sets off when a frog blocks the road and sits down on an ant that in turn bites the frog. From there on, one animal suffers from being disturbed or hurt by another animal, and as a consequence accidentally disturbs or hurts another animal, and so on: the ant disturbs the frog, the frog disturbs the squirrel, the squirrel disturbs the pig, the pig disturbs the bird, the bird disturbs the elephant, the elephant kicks a rock, which then kills the daughter of the king. The king traces back the chain reaction to the frog and the ant, and punishes both of them. This folk story, in a variety of versions, appears to be very common in the extended Eastern Himalayan region. Note also that a late 19th century telling of this story can be found in the Linguistic Survey of India (Grierson 1904).

Physical Description

1 recording (5 min., 59 sec.)

Subjects

Keywords

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Linguistics

Language

Karbi

Item Type

Video

Identifier

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Accession or Local Control No: mjw2010-04-01_03.mp4
Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc1781666

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Collections

This video is part of the following collections of related materials.

Karbi Language Resource

Collection of audio and video recordings of the Karbi language collected by Dr. Linda Konnerth from 2009-2012. These include both traditional and personal narratives from Karbi speakers, and descriptions of weaving practices, recipes, Karbi clans systems, and the status of women in Karbi society. Many of the records have corresponding transcriptions in ELAN.

Computational Resource on South Asian Languages

The Computational Resource for South Asian Languages (CoRSAL) is a digital archive for source audio, video, and text on the minority languages of South Asia.

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