Animating Traditional Amazonian Storytelling: New Methods and Lessons from the Field

dc.contributor.authorSilva, Wilson
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-08T20:44:56Z
dc.date.available2016-12-08T20:44:56Z
dc.date.issued2016-12
dc.description.abstractIn this paper I describe the development of digital animation of Desano traditional stories as a way to foster the inclusion of the Desano language in mainstream digital technology media, while promoting language maintenance and dissemination of cultural knowledge among youths and young adults. The project considers the shifting contexts in which many Desano people live in the contemporary period. Digital animated Desano stories provide important public, community, and scholarly validation for the language as living, dynamic, and vital. Qualitatively different from other written materials produced for the Desano communities, animated digital materials importantly make use of oral language (i.e., animation is accompanied by the original audio in Desano and Desano subtitles), thus exposing younger generations to the sounds and orthography of the language. Oral language-based resources via animation and narration of traditional stories can aid in the group’s language maintenance efforts as they reinforce the spoken language, familiarize the community with the orthography, and celebrate traditional knowledge.
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Foreign Language Resource Center
dc.format.extent17 pages
dc.identifier.citationSilva, Wilson. 2016. Animating Traditional Amazonian Storytelling: New Methods and Lessons from the Field. Language Documentation & Conservation 10. 480-496.
dc.identifier.issn1934-5275
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10125/24703
dc.language.isoen-US
dc.publisherUniversity of Hawaii Press
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
dc.subjectDesana language
dc.subjectDesano Language
dc.subjecttraditional storytelling
dc.subjectdigital animation
dc.titleAnimating Traditional Amazonian Storytelling: New Methods and Lessons from the Field
dc.typeArticle
dc.type.dcmiText
prism.endingpage496
prism.startingpage480

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