ceremony of divination divination_ceremony Documenting cultural events of cangin

This is a ceremony of divination organized prior the second round of the Presidential elections in Senegal. 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. August is a soothsayer. He was one the key soothsayer in the ceremony of divination He was one of the key soothsayers in the ceremony of divination. He oftens organizes ceremonies of divination. He is also a medicine man 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. He was a one of thesoothsayers in the ceremony of divination. He is also a medicine man He died in 2012 Lamine is a member of the team. He is a recorder and a video editor. He is a soothsayer and a medicine man. He was one of the key soothsayer in the ceremony of divination. He was one the key soothsayer in the ceremony of divination. He is a soothsayer and a medicine man. He is a soothsayer. This is the video of the ceremony of divination.