Typed descriptions of Akha death ritual recitations and practices divided into 22 chapters including English translations, handwritten notes, diacritics, and page numbering, and a table of contents summarizing each chapter. Original Akha clauses appear in a numbered list with corresponding English clause-level translations on the following page.
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Typed descriptions of Akha death ritual recitations and practices divided into 22 chapters including English translations, handwritten notes, diacritics, and page numbering, and a table of contents summarizing each chapter. Original Akha clauses appear in a numbered list with corresponding English clause-level translations on the following page.
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.
Typed translations and descriptions of Akha death ritual recitations and practices divided into 8 chapters. Includes partial English translations, handwritten notes, diacritics, and page numbering, and a short introduction summarizing each chapter. Numbering on left margins corresponds to page numbers of original transcriptions in Akha notebooks 93-98.