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