Akha notebook 13

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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.

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34 pages

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Hansson, Inga-Lill 1971/1972.

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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.

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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.

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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Akha notebook 12

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.

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Hansson, Inga-Lill. Akha notebook 13, text, 1971/1972; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc2124645/: accessed June 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT College of Information.

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