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I hereby declare that all the participants involved agreed in publicly sharing the recordings in which they appear by signing a written declaration. The intellectual property of the material belongs to the participants themselves and to the depositor. Khalifa Hamoud alBathari was present and helping me with leading the conversation during all the recording sessions.
The material is released under Creative Commons licence and can be referenced as follows: Gasparini, F. (2019). An Ethno-anthropological archive concerning the Baṭāḥira tribe of Oman. Turin: Laboratorio di Fonetica Sperimentale “Arturo Genre”. URL: http://www.lfsag.unito.it/ark/bathari/main_en.html.
A transcription sample on Elan for the audio file "Death and corpses" can be downloaded. In order to open it, please download and install Elan software. After installing it, please download the Death and corpses audio file together with the related Elan transcription and rename the latter as "B036_Death_And_Taking_Care_of_Corpses.eaf". This will allow you to open the transcription on Elan. Once done, you will need to associate the ."eaf" and the ".mp3" files: open the .eaf file and select the downloaded .mp3 file from the pop-up window which will appear or go to "Edit">"Linked Files" and add it.
Transcriptions for the other files are available too. If interested, please contact the curator of this archive at the following mail address: fabio.gsparini@gmail.com.
| Audio file | ELAN file | Date | Consultant | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fishes and values | 28/10/2016 | Salim Muḥammad Saqr Al Baṭḥari | Here are listed various species of fish and their economic value in the past. | |
| Mashrami song | 30/10/2016 | Maḥmūd Mšaʕfi Musallim Al Mashrami Al Bathari | Song about the ancestors of the Mashrami ḳəblēt | |
| Communicating with other tribes | 07/04/2017 | Maḥmūd Mšaʕfi Musallim Al Mashrami Al Bathari | How the tribe used to communicate with neighbouring tribes; in Arabic with some codeswitching towards the end. | |
| Life in Mingi | 07/04/2017 | Saʕid Salim Musallim Leḥēmer alBaṭḥari | Life in Mingi, a nowadays abandoned area close to Sharbithat (some background talk from other people in the room) | |
| A regular day | 07/04/2017 | Saʕid Salim Musallim Leḥēmer alBaṭḥari | Daily routine of a fisherman. | |
| Fishermen | 08/04/2017 | Salim Muḥammad Saqr Al Baṭḥari | The life and perspectives of a fisherman in the past; becoming a merchant and getting married. | |
| Woman in labour | 10/04/2017 | Nasra Salim Shemlān Al Mḥabši Al Bathari | Before the revolution, Nasra was the tribe's doctor and midwife. She tells an old memory of her helping another woman delivering her babies. | |
| Khol and song | 10/04/2017 | Nasra Salim Shemlān Al Mḥabši Al Bathari | How to make and put traditional khol on. | |
| Calls for animals | 10/04/2017 | Nasra Salim Shemlān Al Mḥabši Al Bathari | Some signals for guiding grazing animals. | |
| Traditional medicine | 10/04/2017 | Nasra Salim Shemlān Al Mḥabši Al Bathari | In the past, spices and salt were the main medicines. | |
| Death and corpses | Download | 14/04/2017 | Rubeyyaʕ Adahaba Suleyyim Al Bathari | Death of a man and how to deal with its corpse. |
| Funeral | 14/04/2017 | Rubeyyaʕ Adahaba Suleyyim Al Bathari | Execution of a funeral. |