Anansi Masters - Curacao G02 - Koeyers, Eligio (Boy)- Mister Throw Far Away

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Mister Throw Far Away told by Eligio (Boy) Koeyers, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project in Curacao.Subject: Searching for foodDescription: Nanzi finds a strange gap in the ground. He devises a ruse to get food.Content: In this story about Kompa Nanzi, we meet him in a time of drought. Due to the drought Nanzi is unable to feed his family. His wife sends Nanzi out on a quest for food. On his journey, he trips over a strange gap. While examining the gap his hand gets stuck in the hole and Nanzi meets mister Throw Far Away. Nanzi learns that there is only one way to get out of the hole: he has to ask mister Throw Far Away to toss him away. After he is released Nanzi devises a ruse to use mister Throw Far Away to surreptitiously catch food. Miss Goat and Miss Cow do not escape. But mister Monkey thinks he is smarter than Nanzi. Is that possible?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

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.17026/dans-xw2-ekx8
Metadata Access https://ssh.datastations.nl/oai?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=doi:10.17026/dans-xw2-ekx8
Provenance
Creator J.C. Hellwig
Publisher DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities
Contributor J.C. Hellwig
Publication Year 2012
Rights CC0 1.0; info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess; http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0
OpenAccess false
Contact J.C. Hellwig (Hellwig Productions Audiovisuals / Vista Far Reaching Visuals Foundation)
Representation
Resource Type Dataset
Format application/rtf; application/zip
Size 129696; 27320
Version 1.0
Discipline Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture; Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Aquaculture and Veterinary Medicine; Humanities; Life Sciences; Social Sciences; Social and Behavioural Sciences; Soil Sciences