Published September 26, 2017 | Version v1

Hakai dariya 'Grandfather Fox'

  • 1. Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldia

Description

The story of Grandfather Fox represents a myth as told by the Kwaza people of
the southwestern Amazon. Kwaza is a highly endangered isolate language with
about 25 speakers. The speakers of Kwaza live in two different indigenous reserves and in a nearby village, in the southeastern corner of the Brazilian state
of Rondônia, amidst a sea of deforested lands owned by big cattle ranchers and
soy farmers. In one of the reserves, Terra Indígena Tubarão-Latundê, the Kwaza
and Latundê (northern nambikwara) form minority populations among the
Aikanã (isolate). Several mixed Kwaza and Aikanã families live in another reserve, Terra Indígena Kwazá do Rio São Pedro. Despite having a very fragmented
speaker community, Kwaza is still the first language of the youngest generation
in two families.

 

 

This dataset contains the mediafiles. A glossed version with annotations is found in
On this and other worlds -- Voices from Amazonia
Edited by Kristine Stenzel and Bruna Franchetto

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Kwaza story 4 August 2014.mp3

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