Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives and conversations about Akha social customs and ceremonies related to death and spirits including animal sacrifices. Continued from Notebook 12. Notes are based on recordings of a phima (one who transmits and recites ritual texts), a phima apprentice, and a third adult male speaker. These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork and later checked in 1972.
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Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives and conversations about Akha social customs and ceremonies related to death and spirits including animal sacrifices. Continued from Notebook 12. Notes are based on recordings of a phima (one who transmits and recites ritual texts), a phima apprentice, and a third adult male speaker. These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork and later checked in 1972.
This text is part of the following collections of related materials.
Akha Language Resource
This collection includes audio recordings, photographs, transcriptions, and notebooks representing the fieldwork of Inga-Lill Hansson of Lund University. Material was collected in Copenhagen and during field trips to Akha villages in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand and subsequently analyzed by Hansson. Genres include ritual texts, traditional narratives, oral histories, music, descriptions of village life, riddles, conversation, and more.
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.
Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives and conversations about Akha social customs and ceremonies related to death and spirits. Notes are based on recordings of a phima (one who transmits and recites ritual texts), a phima apprentice, and a third adult male speaker. These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork.