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Akha death rituals

Description: 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.
Date: 1979
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha death rituals: A preliminary translation

Description: 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.
Date: 1984
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 01 A

Description: Handwritten notes and transcription of a narrative about a dishonest merchant told by consultant Tshé-mja while studying in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork. Includes tone marks and partial glossing.
Date: 1971
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 02 B

Description: Handwritten notes on Akha grammar including transcriptions of narratives and conversations about family structures and village life. These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork.
Date: 1971
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 07

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives about social customs related to death. These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork.
Date: 1971
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 10

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives and conversations about Akha social customs, ceremonies related to spirits, traditional tools and weapons, and the Akha's relations with neighboring communities like the Shan and Northern Thai. Notes are based on recordings of three Akha speakers: a 70 year old man from Doi Tung mountain, and two brothers in their late 20s.
Date: 1971-07/1971-12
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 12

Description: 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.
Date: 1971-07/1971-12
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 13

Description: 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.
Date: 1971/1972
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 14

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of a traditional song for a dead parent. This song would be sung by the whole village when an adult dies. Notes are based on recordings of a 30 year old man training to be a phima (one who transmits and recites ritual texts). These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork and later checked with a 38 year old speaker whose comments are included in green ink.
Date: 1971
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 15

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of a traditional song for a dead parent. Continued from Notebook 14. This song would be sung by the whole village when an adult dies. Notes are based on recordings of a 30 year old man training to be a phima (one who transmits and recites ritual texts). These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork.
Date: 1971
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 16

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives and conversations about Akha spirits, the origin of lightning, and rivers on Akha migration routes. Notes are based on recordings of a phima (one who transmits and recites ritual texts), a phima apprentice, an adult male speaker, and a 4 year old child. These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork and later checked with another speaker whose comments are included in green ink.
Date: 1971
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 85

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of descriptions of daily life in an Akha village and conversations about marriage. Continued from Notebook 83.
Date: 1977-12/1978-05
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 87

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of conversations about death rituals, Akha funerals, hunting taboos, traditional health practices, and marriage. Continued from Notebook 86.
Date: 1978-02-28/1978-11
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 88

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of conversations about traditional health practices and opium and tobacco use and traditional narratives about dragons. Continued from Notebook 87.
Date: 1978-03/1979-12
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 89

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of conversations about traditional health practices, funerals, and buying and selling and traditional narratives about tigers. Continued from Notebook 88.
Date: 1978-03-28/1978-11
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 90

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of songs and rituals associated with death and marriage. Continued from Notebook 80.
Date: 1978-04-05/1978-05
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 120

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs, narratives, and ritual recitations about offerings to ancestors, good and bad omens, months, and taboos.
Date: 1982-10-08/1982-10-09
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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