Traditional story about a common fool character

Traditional story about a common fool character

Description

This a traditional story about a common fool character, who does stupid things (bokolapo); in this story, he wants to go to the market but by switching sides of the basket he is carrying also accidentally switches the direction in which he is walking; he ends up walking back to his own house without realizing it.

Physical Description

1 recording (3 min., 4 sec.)

Creation Information

Konnerth, Linda Creation Date: Unknown.

Context

This video is part of the collection entitled: Karbi Language Resource and was provided by the UNT College of Information to the UNT Digital Library, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. More information about this video can be viewed below.

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Titles

Main Title: Traditional story about a common fool character
Parallel Title: Bokolapo Phinu aBiha Choklem

Description

This a traditional story about a common fool character, who does stupid things (bokolapo); in this story, he wants to go to the market but by switching sides of the basket he is carrying also accidentally switches the direction in which he is walking; he ends up walking back to his own house without realizing it.

Physical Description

1 recording (3 min., 4 sec.)

Subjects

Keywords

Library of Congress Subject Headings

Linguistics

Language

Karbi

Item Type

Video

Identifier

Unique identifying numbers for this video in the Digital Library or other systems.

Accession or Local Control No: mjw2010-04-02_01.mp4
Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc1781671

Relationships

Transcription: Traditional story about a common fool character; ark:/67531/metadc1781672
Traditional story about a common fool character; ark:/67531/metadc1781670

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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Transcription: Traditional story about a common fool character (Text)

This a traditional story about a common fool character, who does stupid things (bokolapo); in this story, he wants to go to the market but by switching sides of the basket he is carrying also accidentally switches the direction in which he is walking; he ends up walking back to his own house without realizing it.

Relationship to this item: (Has Transcription)

Transcription: Traditional story about a common fool character; ark:/67531/metadc1781672