The Livingston Garifuna Collection
La Colección Livingsteña del Idioma Garífuna
Object Details
| Collection Language | Garifuna |
| Language PID | ailla:257372 |
| Title [Indigenous] | Budawaguaü Garifuna La Bugagien |
| Language of Indigenous Title | cab |
| Title | The Livingston Garifuna Collection |
| Country(ies) | Guatemala |
| Collector(s) | Broach, Alison |
| Depositor(s) | Broach, Alison |
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| Description [Indigenous] | |
| Language of Indigenous Description | |
| Description | The materials from this collection capture natural Garifuna speech and accounts that contain information that members of the Garifuna community of Livingston, Guatemala deemed important to preserve. The primary texts entitled "Damaris Interview" and "Catatu Interview" center on midwifery and how the trade is being passed down. "US Voyages" offers two descriptions of the experience of migrating to the US. "Our Grandmother" is primarily an informal conversation among women seventy and older about motherhood and the past. Recordings from this collection were made in 2015. This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation Documenting Endangered Languages Grant under award number BCS-1500811. Materials were created to support the anthropological doctoral dissertation research of Alison Broach. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Collection published in 2018, updated in 2019. |
| References | Broach, Alison. (In progress). Of Elders and Ancestors: Language Loss as a Cultural Phenomenon in a Garifuna Town. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Virginia. |
