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Study title

Anansi Masters - Curacao G19 - Statia, Ingrid (Ini) - The two shortest Nanzi stories

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J.C. Hellwig (Hellwig Productions AV / Vista Far Reaching Visuals Foundation)

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doi:10.17026/dans-2ar-d2b4 (DOI)

easy-dataset:52424 (DANS-KNAW)

Anansi Masters G19 (DANS-KNAW)

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The two shortest Nanzi stories told by Ingrid Statia (Ini), recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project in Curacao.Subject: Solving all problems in the world. The consequences of being invisible.Description: Two shortest stories are being told. In the first story, Nanzi becomes a magician to solve all problems with his magic. It all worked fine until a politician shows up who causes all existing problems. The second story points out that nobody will notice when you are invisible.Content: The first story is about Nanzi who would have solved all problems in the world, if there had not been any politicians. The second story tells about Nanzi being invisible.About Anansi Masters: The Anansi Masters project is developed by Vista Far Reaching Visuals (Mr. Jean Hellwig) and partners. It is designed as a public digital platform at http://www.anansimasters.net and opened in 2007. At the website one can find information about the story character of Nanzi (or Anansi or Kweku Ananse), with English and Dutch subtitled video recordings of storytelling in several countries in different languages, educational modules about storytelling for use at schools and academies, and digital issues of the Anansi Masters Journal published since the beginning of the project. All storytelling videos are also published on Youtube.The stories of the Anansi tradition originate in Africa and were exported to other parts of the world through slave trade and migration. In Anansi Masters, the similarities and differences between the stories and storytellers, who tell in their own language, can be found. Anansi Masters initiates different activities all over the world where stories from this oral tradition can be found. The founder has the ambition to film as many stories from this tradition as possible in as many countries as possible. Anansi Masters collaborates with writers, theatre makers, filmmakers, researchers, schools and of course with many many storytellers.This dataset contains:- the...
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DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities

Publication year

2012

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