Pite Saami: documenting the language and culture
Language: Pite Saami [sje]
Depositor: Joshua Karl Wilbur
Location: Sweden
Summary of deposit
This deposit documents Pite Saami, spoken in Arjeplog municipality, Sweden. It results from fieldwork conducted in Sweden between July 2008 and May 2010.
The documentation consists of 6 collections of materials, each one including audio and video files, transcriptions and metadata.
Topics include reindeer, winter, handicrafts, agriculture and fishing.
Deposit contents
Access is open to some components, e.g. Collection 1 and Collection 4; for other parts, access to the audio/video recordings and transcriptions requires a researcher or community member role.
Viewing the transcription files (.eaf) with audio/video requires downloading and installing the ELAN program (freeware)
See also the following publicly accessible websites for more examples of the depositor’s work on Pite Saami:
- http://www2.hu-berlin.de/psdp (project description and samples)
- http://www2.hu-berlin.de/psdp/EN/docLing.html (potentially useful resources for documentary linguistics)
- http://www2.hu-berlin.de/psdp/antlers/antlersEN.html (preliminary interactive multimedia on reindeer antler terminology)
Acknowledgement
Users of any part of the collection should cite Joshua Wilbur as the collector, ELDP as the funder, and the individual speakers, by name, whose words and/or images are used.Basic info
Collection 1: A short description in which an old Pite Saami weaving reed, a reindeer lasso ring, and an unfinished sheath, all made of reindeer antler, are described. It includes: video and audio files; a Pite Saami transcription, Swedish and English translations, interlinear glosses; subtitle files for the media files; and 6 photos of the objects described.
Collection 2: A brief description of the narrator's childhood home Álesgiehtje (Västerfjäll), narrated spontaneously and referring to a short slideshow.
Collection 3: A video describing activities during the autumn reindeer roundup and how to slaughter a reindeer using the modern industrial method.
Collection 4: A video describing various names for different kinds of reindeer, and working with tame reindeer.
Collection 5: Elsy describes the winter landscape around Álesgiehtje (Västerfjäll); she talks about skiing, snowmobiles, playing when she was a child, trapping ptarmigan, etc.
Collection 6: Henning and Elsy converse about fishing, Áhkabakkte (Henning's childhood home), speaking Saami and life when they were children.
Depositor
Deposit
This deposit documents Pite Saami, spoken in Arjeplog municipality, Sweden. It results from fieldwork conducted in Sweden between July 2008 and May 2010.
The documentation consists of 6 collections of materials, each one including audio and video files, transcriptions and metadata.
Topics include reindeer, winter, handicrafts, agriculture and fishing.
Access is open to some components, e.g. Collection 1 and Collection 4; for other parts, access to the audio/video recordings and transcriptions requires a researcher or community member role.
Viewing the transcription files (.eaf) with audio/video requires downloading and installing the ELAN program (freeware)
See also the following publicly accessible websites for more examples of the depositor’s work on Pite Saami:
- http://www2.hu-berlin.de/psdp (project description and samples)
- http://www2.hu-berlin.de/psdp/EN/docLing.html (potentially useful resources for documentary linguistics)
- http://www2.hu-berlin.de/psdp/antlers/antlersEN.html (preliminary interactive multimedia on reindeer antler terminology)
Access
According to the Swedish Sami Parliament Act (1992:1433), a Saami is someone who considers him/herself a Saami AND has (had) Saami as a language at home or who has a parent/grandparent with Saami as a language at home or who has a parent who was included in the electoral register for the Sami Parliament; in this Act, the term “Saami language” indicates any of the various Saami languages.
For the purpose of defining membership in specifically the Pite Saami community, the same definition should be applied but with the restriction that the defining language is specifically Pite Saami; Furthermore, the stipulation concerning inclusion in the electoral register should not be considered relevant; as a result, any Saami with a Saami background other than Pite Saami is considered a research community member and not a language community member.
