Resource Type

Language

Song at the swinging festival (open access)

Song at the swinging festival

Lyrics of a song describing the weather and foods eaten during the swinging festival, including a metrical analysis of syllables per line.
Date: November 1985
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Staying comfortable, drinking liquor (open access)

Staying comfortable, drinking liquor

Transcription of the song/chant 'shàziqziq e' indicating tone and a metrical analysis of syllables per line. Includes partial translations.
Date: November 18, 1985
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Description of death rituals (open access)

Description of death rituals

Description of rituals associated with death, including preparing the body, offerings, and the roles of family members in these practices.
Date: 1990~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 07 (open access)

Akha notebook 07

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives about social customs related to death. These notes were written in Lampang in preparation for fieldwork.
Date: 1971
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 85 (open access)

Akha notebook 85

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of descriptions of daily life in an Akha village and conversations about marriage. Continued from Notebook 83.
Date: 1977-12/1978-05
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 89 (open access)

Akha notebook 89

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of conversations about traditional health practices, funerals, and buying and selling and traditional narratives about tigers. Continued from Notebook 88.
Date: 1978-03-28/1978-11
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 86 (open access)

Akha notebook 86

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of conversations about death rituals and Akha funerals.
Date: February 1978
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 80 (open access)

Akha notebook 80

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of songs and rituals associated with death and marriage.
Date: 1977/1978-04
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 90 (open access)

Akha notebook 90

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of songs and rituals associated with death and marriage. Continued from Notebook 80.
Date: 1978-04-05/1978-05
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 134 (open access)

Akha notebook 134

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha narratives, word lists, lecture notes, grammar notes, and notes on terms used in English translations with detailed descriptions of rituals, festivals, the Akha calendar, genealogies, traditional clothing, sacrifices, the agricultural cycle, and taboos. Includes excerpts of the 1988 Thai census demographics.
Date: 1986/1991
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 120 (open access)

Akha notebook 120

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs, narratives, and ritual recitations about offerings to ancestors, good and bad omens, months, and taboos.
Date: 1982-10-08/1982-10-09
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 118 (open access)

Akha notebook 118

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and ritual recitations with partial English glossing.
Date: September 26, 1982
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 119 (open access)

Akha notebook 119

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and ritual recitations with partial English glossing.
Date: September 29, 1982
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 123 (open access)

Akha notebook 123

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and narratives including njí-phà Sjhí ə and conversations with njí-phà Àphiphò with partial English glossing. Includes hand drawn map of the houses and landmarks in Maeby village.
Date: 1982/1983-12-25
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 124 (open access)

Akha notebook 124

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives recited by njí-phà Sjhí ə in Maeby village about dragons, spirits, rituals, and healing.
Date: 1982/2016
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 132 (open access)

Akha notebook 132

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives about spirits and rituals with partial English glossing, word lists, and grammar notes on tone and syllable structure.
Date: 1988-01/1989-01-17
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 87 (open access)

Akha notebook 87

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of conversations about death rituals, Akha funerals, hunting taboos, traditional health practices, and marriage. Continued from Notebook 86.
Date: 1978-02-28/1978-11
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Akha notebook 88 (open access)

Akha notebook 88

Handwritten notes and transcriptions of conversations about traditional health practices and opium and tobacco use and traditional narratives about dragons. Continued from Notebook 87.
Date: 1978-03/1979-12
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ritual chant (open access)

Ritual chant

Recitation of a njíphà (shaman) describing traditional healing and ritual practices.
Date: 1984
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Vampires (open access)

Vampires

Traditional narrative about vampires.
Date: 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hani funeral text (open access)

Hani funeral text

Typed transcription of a Hani funeral ritual narrative describing the underworld and the relationships between humans and the natural world.
Date: 1992
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Raft in river (open access)

Raft in river

Typed transcription of a narrative about rafting in the river with tone indicated.
Date: 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Dragon (open access)

Dragon

Typed traditional narrative about dragons.
Date: 1977
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Orally transmitted texts of the minorities in East and Southeast Asia: Suggestions for research across borders (open access)

Orally transmitted texts of the minorities in East and Southeast Asia: Suggestions for research across borders

Pre-print manuscript about the value of orally transmitted texts, including excerpts of Akha texts translated into English.
Date: 1997/2004~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library