How Nanzi lost his Afro hairstyle told by Diana Lebacs, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project in Curacao.Subject: Punished for a bad habit.Description: Nanzi thinks he does not need to work for food. He ends having lost his Afro hair.Content: Nanzi used to have a lot of hair in Afro style. It took him the whole morning to take care of it. By the time he had finished, it was lunchtime. One day he decided to pay a visit to his auntie. She should be cooking lunch so maybe he would be treated to a sweet surprise. But auntie lets him work the garden first. When she is called away by her neighbour, Nanzi sneaks into the kitchen to taste auntie's stew. When she gets back, Nanzi is almost caught. He hides the stew in a straw hat, but it destroys his hair.About Anansi Masters: The Anansi Masters project is developed by Vista Far Reaching Visuals (Mr. Jean Hellwig) and partners. It is designed as a public digital platform at http://www.anansimasters.net and opened in 2007. At the website one can find information about the story character of Nanzi (or Anansi or Kweku Ananse), with English and Dutch subtitled video recordings of storytelling in several countries in different languages, educational modules about storytelling for use at schools and academies, and digital issues of the Anansi Masters Journal published since the beginning of the project. All storytelling videos are also published on Youtube.The stories of the Anansi tradition originate in Africa and were exported to other parts of the world through slave trade and migration. In Anansi Masters, the similarities and differences between the stories and storytellers, who tell in their own language, can be found. Anansi Masters initiates different activities all over the world where stories from this oral tradition can be found. The founder has the ambition to film as many stories from this tradition as possible in as many countries as possible. Anansi Masters collaborates with writers, theatre makers, filmmakers, researchers, schools and of course with many many storytellers.This dataset refers to:- the video recording of the storytelling with English subtitles- the video recording of the storytelling with Dutch subtitles- the video recording of the short interview with the storyteller with English subtitles- the video recording of the short interview with the storyteller with Dutch subtitles- a text datasheet with information about the stortyteller and story in English and Dutch
Date Submitted: 2012-12-12
