Teaching chant
Canto de enseñanza
Object Details
| Subject Language | Kuna, San Blas |
| Language PID(s) | ailla:119499 |
| Title [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Title | |
| Title | Teaching chant |
| Language Community | |
| Country(ies) | Panama |
| Place Created | Mulatuppu |
| Date Created | 1970-04-10 |
| Description [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Description | |
| Description | Kantule Ernesto Linares chants to teach a student in his home. From Verbal Art in San Blas (p. 240, fn 1): "In 1970 I made a tape recording of a puberty rites specialist teaching a chant to several students. Between 1970 and 1978 I never discussed this chant with him. In March of 1979, nine years after the original recording, I brought him a transcription I had made of it, in order to translate it into ordinary colloquial Kuna, from which it differs considerably. Since he does not read or write, he asked me to read him the text. I did so line by line and he translated each line into colloquial Kuna. Typically I barely began a line and he finished it, never missing a morpheme or even a phoneme from my transcription. In a few cases where I misread a tiny detail of my own writing, he corrected me." |
| Genres | Educational material Commentary Chant |
| Source Note | log 7.8 |
| References | |
| Contributor(s) Individual / Role | Sherzer, Joel (Researcher) Linares, Ernesto (Performer) |
| Contributor(s) Corporate / Role |
