Ntaaling, Ntaaling - Taaling Diimaa! Women Telling Stories in The Gambia

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Identifiers

10.3203/IWF/C-1998eng (DOI)

10.5240/78AC-392D-F9EC-86AA-D9D5-C (EIDR)

IWF Signature

C 1998

Publisher

Release Date

Language

Other Version

Producer

Production Year

1997

Technical Metadata

IWF Technical Data

Video ; F, 56 min

Content Metadata

Subject Area

Ethnology Linguistics Literature Studies

Genre

Documentation/Report

Abstract

The film describes the research of africanist Katrin Pfeiffer in Gambia, West Africa, where she records Mandinka fairy tales and other oral traditions and transcribes them with the help of local assistants. Some of the tales are narrated and a trip of the film team together with the researcher is described, where recordings are carried out.

Keywords

rhymes, sayings, verses

IWF Classification

German	German Kulturwissenschaften Gambia Afrika [Regionaldeskriptoren] Ethnologie/Kulturanthropologie Künste (Ethnologie) Musik (Ethnologie) Gesang Sprach-u. Literaturwissenschaft
English	English cultural studies ethnology/cultural anthropology arts (ethnology) music (ethnology) singing Africa Gambia linguistics and literature studies