Online
Video Recordings
in support of
PhD Dissertation:
"Ethnographic Videoconferencing, as Applied to
Songs/chants/dances/games of South Indian Children,
and Language Learning"
by Eric Miller
Folklore Program, University of Pennsylvania
(Philadelphia, USA)
Submitted
and Approved in 2010
The children's 14 songs/chants/dances/game
(recorded in Vellambi, the research project's fieldwork
village)
are here (11 minutes, 30
seconds).
Video of the 14 Activities, and their Written Words
1) "One Stone" (at 0:09). The Activity's written words.
2) "One Garden" (at
1:00). The Activity's written words.
3) "One Pot" (at 1:31). The Activity's written words.
4) "Sandalwood Ash"
(at 2:57). The Activity's written words.
5) "What Kind Of?"
(at 4:00). The Activity's written words.
6) "What Use?" (at
4:23). The Activity's written words.
7) "Please Give!"
(at 4:37). The Activity's written words.
8) "Monkey Jumping" (at 6:16). The Activity's written words.
9) "Rolling" (at 6:40). The Activity's written words.
10) "A Fruit" (at 7:38). The Activity's written words.
11) "A Bunch" (at 8:10). The Activity's written words.
12) "Goat and Tiger"
(at 9:28). The Activity's written words.
13) "Frog, Frog"
(at 11:10). The Activity's written words.
14) "Tick, Tick"
(at 11:18). The Activity's written words.
The texts of
all of these activities, in Tamil and English, are in Chapter 4
of the Dissertation (pdf file, 3.5 MB).
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In these online recordings of the research
project's two post-fieldwork videoconferences, the image on the left
side is from Chennai, and the image on the right side is from Philadelphia.
16 October 2004
Chennai-Philadelphia Videoconference --
2004 Videoconference
(Part 1 of 2) (62 minutes).
2004 Videoconference (Part 2 of 2) (34
minutes).
15 October 2005 Chennai-Philadelphia Videoconference --
2005 Videoconference (Part 1 of 2) (60
minutes).
2005 Videoconference (Part 2 of 2) (45
minutes).
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Two highlights of the 2004 videoconference
are:
a) Children from the two sides of the videoconference perform One
Bucket of Water (Oru kudam thanni), a singing game,
collaboratively: each site contributes a side of the arch.
2004 Videoconference (Part
1 of 2) (62 minutes) -- Begins at 21 minutes into the
recording, and goes for 2 minutes.
b) One child from each side of the videoconference engages in a verbal
exchange partly derived from Enna panni? (a question-and-answer chant).
There is coaching from adults on both sides.
2004 Videoconference, Part 2 of 2 (34
minutes) -- Begins at 27 minutes and 30 seconds into the recording, and
goes for 3 minutes.
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To contact Eric Miller,
please e-mail to
eric@storytellinginstitute.org
www.storytellinginstitute.org
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