README FILE FOR "Central Mali villages and people documentaries" videos

These videos were made in the course of linguistic fieldwork in villages in central Mali between 2011 and 2014. The videos in this work are: "out of town woman", "village portrait Beni 2011", and "village portrait Pergue 2011. The videos are in standard documentary form with captions in English. Primary funding by National Science Foundation's Documenting Endangered Langauages program and Guggenheim Foundation.

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Title: Out of Town Woman
Formats: Audio Video Interleave (.avi), Quicktime (.qt) and Windows Media Video (.wmv)
Length 3:24. 
Description: Short documentary about a ceremony in a Dogan Village in which women play prominent roles. With English captions.
Camera by Minkailou Djiguiba. Editing and titles by Jeffrey Heath.

Title: Village portrait Beni 2011
Formats: Audio Video Interleave (.avi), Quicktime (.qt) and Windows Media Video (.wmv)
Recorded in Beni, Mali in 2011. 
Length 10:02. 
Description: Documentary providing a portrait of Beni, a Dogon village. The Ben Tey language (from the Dogon family of languages) is featured with English captions. 
Guide: Salif Morogoye. Camera and Editing by Jeffrey Heath. 

Title: Village portrait Pergue 2011
Formats: Audio Video Interleave (.avi), Quicktime (.qt) and Windows Media Video (.wmv)
Recorded in the Pergue village, Mali in 2011. 
Length 5:39. 
Description: Documentary providing a portrait of the Pergue village (located in northern Dogon country), Mali in 2011. With English captions.
Camera by Minkailou Djiguiba and Jeffrey Heath. The featured langauge is Perge Tegu (a unique dialect of Jamsay).


LICENSE
 
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