ML148470
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Subject 1: (Interview). Subtitle: Hogon Samba. Timecode In: 00:10:04. Timecode out: 01:13:45. Notes: Dogon culture and beliefs; translated by Roberto Cerea. Subject 2: (Environmental Recording). Subtitle: Market ambi. Timecode In: 01:38:47. Timecode out: 01:43:50. Habitat: ; ; Equipment Notes: Decoded MS Stereo. Show: Mali-Dogon Log of DAT #:17a Engineer: Leo Date: January 27th, 2003 IM = Issa Mohammed R = Roberto Cerea WD = Wade Davis CR = Chris Rainier AC = Alex Chadwick CJ = Carolyn Jensen Leo = Leo del Aguila 0:11 Leo starts talking about what the recording will be, same set-up: ms, Sonosax preamp d7. Alex says it's the village of Goumo. 2:00-2:51 Ambi. Sounds of village of Goumo 3:03-3:41 Ambi. Sounds of village of Goumo 3:42 Woman asks Leo what his instruments are, he tells her. 6:02-7:46 Ambi. Sounds of village. 8:04-8:58 Ambi. Sounds before interview. 8:59-10:03 French (explanation of interview) 10:04 R-He says that he's very happy. 10:06 AC-Thank you. I'd like to begin by telling him a little bit about myself if I could and why we're here. French 10:43 AC-When I was a boy I lived in the country, but near the capitol of Washington, D.C., but out in the country I had horses and I took care of horses and ducks and dogs for my family on our farm. French 12:00 AC-I did the normal things a young man does. I went to school, then I became a warrior for several years, then I became a story-teller, and that's what I've done for many, many years, for the last 20 years I've been a story-teller. French 13:42 R-He says that is a good job you are doing. 13:44 AC-In my country I'm a famous storyteller. I like especially funny stories, but I also tell stories about politics, about history, about belief, and just about the lives of ordinary people. French AC-Humor French 15:07 AC-So, now I'm at a time in my life when I'm interested in belief, in the way people believe things. I don't know if I should try to explain¿But I'm interested in stories about belief. Cause we've been around the world to talk to many different people about different stories. We now are trying to do a series of stories for people in my country about how different people have different beliefs and particularly about the afterlife. Carolyn and Angela had told us about the Dogon. We're very interested in their beliefs and this is what we'd like to come and talk to them about. This may be putting too much into one burst, but I want to tell them that we plan to come back this afternoon. We're going to the market, but we plan to come back this afternoon and this is what we'd like to talk to them about and we could, if that's okay, if we're not transgressing their secrets. We understand they have secrets and we don't want to transgress them, but to the extent that they're comfortable talking about the roles of ancestors in their lives. That's what we'd like to talk about. French 18:54 R-He says he and the Dogon, we don't talk about paradise or hell, we are ready to talk about what we believe after death. 19:06 AC-When he says they don't talk about paradise¿ R-They don't talk about paradise or hell AC-Ya, ya, that would be, we would be most grateful for that. French 21:07 R-He says I am ready to talk how people they (unintelligible). French 21:34 R-He's ready also to share with us his life as Hanka, how it goes to (?) to the country side, how they organize the culture of the animals, everything to do with it. AC-We would like to¿You must be a great hunter to catch game in this country because we don't see much game around here. You must be a very skilled hunter. French R-He says it's true, I'm a very good hunter. AC (explains that translator shouldn't say "uh-huh") 23:22 AC-Tell him that the reason we are asking these questions about the ... (Notes truncated)
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- SONY TCD-D7
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- Sennheiser MKH 30; Sennheiser MKH 50
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- Cataloged
- 4 Mar 2010 - Ben Brotman
- Digitized
- 4 Mar 2010 - Ben Brotman
- Edited
- 4 Mar 2010 - Ben Brotman