interview with Augustin interview_04 Documenting cultural events of cangin

This is an interview with Augustin about the ceremony of divination The project’s aim is to document cultural events in Cangin, a dialect of Noon (ISO 639-3:snf), whose population is estimated at 9000. Noon is spoken in the Thiès area, a region in the west of Senegal (14°48'0""N / 16°56'0""W). Their culture is very different from that of surrounding groups. This culture is being lost, and the project focuses on documenting ceremonial performances and cultural knowledge in order to preserve a record of a unique culture. The corpus will further contribute to the speech communities’ efforts to maintain and strengthen their language and culture. Collection 1: a ceremony of divination and interviews about the ceremony. It includes images, video, audio, Elan files and the metadata.. Access date: 2012-04-23. Access is open to researchers and communities members. To view annoatation files (.eaf) with audio/video requires to download Elan programme. He is the depositor and a PhD researcher in Linguistics. Khadim is our main informant. He is a singer and he plays the guitar. He conducted all the interviews. August is a soothsayer. He was one the key soothsayer in the ceremony of divination He helps on translation She was a team member. She was an annotator