Nanzi and Tukema honor a deceased told by Joan Danies, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project on Aruba.Subject: Benefit from someone's sorrow.Description: Nanzi and Tukema join a commemoration ceremony of a rich woman. They pretend to have known her and find a way to rob the family.Content: Nanzi and Tukema enter a house during a mourning ceremony for a very rich lady. They pretend to know the lady and participate in the ceremony with passion. They make the family bring out the jewelry of the deceased as well as all food and drink available. All this to honor the deceased in an appropriate manner. Then they sing the people to sleep. Nanzi and Tukema fill their bags with all delights and jewelry and leave. After splitting the prey, they go their own ways.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
