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Description of the Maang-Sazo festival

Rajesh describes a very peculiar event that marks the beginning of the Sazo festival during Maang. The festival takes place in Chhitkul during the month of January. The recording was made in front of Rajesh's home in Chhitkul village, on the path that leads towards Amar Guest House, at the back of the main temple.
Date: 2019/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of the migration 'gunsaa'

Satender describes gunsaa, the traditional migration to lower (and warmer) places from Rakchham and Chhitkul village that takes place during winter. The recording was made at Satender's second residence in Dhangdhangshi, a place that belongs to Rakchham, down below the village.
Date: 2019/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Description of the peaks surrounding Chhitkul village

Madan describes the peaks that surround Chhitkul village, including their names. The recording was made in Amar Guest House.
Date: 2019/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fingrei Journal (open access)

Fingrei Journal

This is the January 2019 issue of the Fingrei Journal, which was established in 2003 in Yangon. This issue includes sections titles Hmuhning 'Perspectives'; Biaknak 'Worship'; Hrilhfiah 'Comments'; Tuanbia 'Stories'; among others.
Date: January 2019
Creator: Phu, Fingrei; Thang, Salai Ṭial Awi & Hmung, Lian Ding
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Jagdish Chander narrates the Jackal and the Crow

Jagdish Chander describes each picture of the Jackal and the Crow, a picture-based stimulus task. He tells the whole story, and then tells the story from the fox’s perspective. Before being recorded, Jagdish mentioned that he was already familiar with the story. The recording was made at Jagdish's home in Chhitkul village, with a splendid view of Thola peak.
Date: 2019/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Madan Singh Negi narrates the Jackal and the Crow

Madan Singh Negi describes each picture of the Jackal and the Crow, a picture-based stimulus task. He tells the whole story, and then tells the story from the jackal’s perspective. The recording was made at Amar Guest House in Chhitkul village.
Date: 2019/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Meena Kumari and Seema Devi narrate The Family Story

Meena and Seema complete set-up 1 of the Family Story Task, a picture-based stimulus task. They describe the 16 pictures and then rearrange them in whatever order they think is right. Then, they tell the whole story from start to finish. In this case, the final step of re-telling the story from another perspective was skipped because there was no third participant. The recording was made at Uma Homestay in Rakchham village.
Date: 2019/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Narayan Bhakti narrates the Jackal and the Crow

Narayan describes each picture of the Jackal and the Crow, a picture-based stimulus task. She tells the whole story, and then tells the story from the crow’s perspective. The recording was made in Rakchham village, nearby the main temple.
Date: 2019/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pritam Chand narrates the Jackal and the Crow

Pritam describes each picture of the Jackal and the Crow, a picture-based stimulus task. He tells the whole story, and then retells the story from the jackal’s perspective very briefly. Chhitkul-Rakchham is not Pritam's first language. The recording was made at his home in Rakchham village.
Date: 2019/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Radha Devi and Yashpal Singh narrate The Family Story

Radha Devi and Yashpal Singh complete set-up 2 of the Family Story Task, a picture-based stimulus task. They sit back to back in the first instance: Yashpal describes the content of pictures 5, 7, 9, 12 & 15, and Radha, based on his description, tells him how to arrange the five pictures so as to make a story. Afterwards, they tell the story. This set-up turned out to be more manageable for both participants than the initial 16-picture task. The recording was made in Radha's second home in Dhangdhangshi, located further down Rakchham village.
Date: 2019/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Ram Kumar narrates the Jackal and the Crow

Ram describes each picture of the Jackal and the Crow, a picture-based stimulus task. He tells the whole story, and then tells the story from the fox’s perspective. The recording was made at Amar Guest House in Chhitkul village.
Date: 2019/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Recitation of song lyrics about local deities

Shudha Bhakti and Narayan Bhakti recite the lyrics of a song about Bhagwati, one of the local deities. The recording was made next to the main temple entrance, in Rakchham village.
Date: 2019/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Seema Devi narrates the Jackal and the Crow

Seema describes each picture of the Jackal and the Crow, a picture-based stimulus task. She tells the whole story, and then tells the story from the jackal’s perspective. Before being recorded, Seema mentioned that she was familiar with the story. The recording was made at her home at the very beginning of Rakchham village.
Date: 2019/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Snowfall in Rakchham

Bimla discusses snowfall in Rakchham over the past few years, saying that heavy snowfall was more frequent in earlier times. The recording was made at her and her husband's house in Rakchham, just after some heavy snowfall episodes when the village was still covered by thick snow. It was only a few days after the road from Reckong Peo to Sangla and Rakchham had reopened.
Date: 2019/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Temporally-oriented possession: A corpus for tracking possession over time (open access)

Temporally-oriented possession: A corpus for tracking possession over time

This paper presents a new corpus of Wikipedia articles annotated with temporally-oriented possession or tracking concrete objects as they change hands over time.
Date: January 2019
Creator: Chinnappa, Dhivya; Palmer, Alexis & Blanco, Eduardo
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Yashvir Singh narrates the Jackal and the Crow

Yashvir describes each picture of the Jackal and the Crow, a picture-based stimulus task. He tells the whole story, and then tells the story from the crow’s perspective. Yashvir had made it clear before being recorded that he was very familiar with the story, which is noticeable, as he notably provides lengthy descriptions and narrations. The recording was made at Uma Homestay in Rakchham village.
Date: 2019/2022
Creator: Martinez, Philippe Antoine
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about a visit

This is a conversation between Atta-ur Rehman (a 37-year old male teacher) and Muhammad Suleman (a 36-year old male teacher) about a visit to Punja Gali, a tourist spot located in district Mansehra of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan.
Date: January 4, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about a visit

This is a conversation between Atta-ur Rehman (a 37-year old male teacher) and Muhammad Suleman (a 36-year old male teacher) about a visit to Punja Gali, a tourist spot located in district Mansehra of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province in Pakistan.
Date: January 4, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about a visit to Kashmir

This is a conversation between Naik Muhammad (a 42-year old male driver) and Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male government servant) about Naik Muhammad's recent visit to Kashmir.
Date: January 10, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

Conversation about a visit to Kashmir

This is a conversation between Naik Muhammad (a 42-year old male driver) and Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old male government servant) about Naik Muhammad's recent visit to Kashmir.
Date: January 10, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of the story of seven brothers and a sister

This is a retelling of the story about seven brothers and their sister by Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old government servant) with Naik Muhammad (a 42-year old male) as the listener. In this story, the brothers get separated from their sister and the latter is searching for them. The sister finds her lost brothers in a forest but the brothers cannot recognise her and each one of them wants to marry her. When the sister lets them know that she was their sister, they drop the idea of marrying her.
Date: January 10, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of the story of seven brothers and a sister

This is a retelling of the story about seven brothers and their sister by Muhammad Awaiz (a 32-year old government servant) with Naik Muhammad (a 42-year old male) as the listener. In this story, the brothers get separated from their sister and the latter is searching for them. The sister finds her lost brothers in a forest but the brothers cannot recognise her and each one of them wants to marry her. When the sister lets them know that she was their sister, they drop the idea of marrying her.
Date: January 10, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Complexity Theory: An Overview with Potential Applications for the Social Sciences (open access)

Complexity Theory: An Overview with Potential Applications for the Social Sciences

This article differentiates between general systems theory (GST) and complexity theory, as well as identifies advantages for the social sciences in incorporating complexity theory as a formal theory. Complexity theory is expanded upon and identified as providing a new perspective and a new method of theorizing that can be practiced by disciplines within the social sciences.
Date: December 22, 2018
Creator: Turner, John R. & Baker, Rose M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Retelling of the story of a witty man

This is a traditional story which involves a descriptive riddle about a witty man who needs to take a lion, a goat and a load of leaves across a river. The caveat is that the man cannot take all three in one go. (Note: the narrator inadvertently refers to the goat as a jackal in the beginning). In this recording, the speaker Naik Muhammad (a 42-year old male speaker who works as a driver) is addressing Muhammad Awaiz (a 31-year old male government servant).
Date: January 20, 2019
Creator: Anjum, Uzma
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library