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Anansi Masters - Aruba H06 - Petrocchi-Everon, Maritza - Nanzi assists Tiger with picking avocados

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

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doi:10.17026/dans-zvr-tt2j (DOI)

easy-dataset:52432 (DANS-KNAW)

Anansi Masters H06 (DANS-KNAW)

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Nanzi assists Tiger with picking avocados told by Martiza Petrocchi-Everon, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project on Aruba.Subject: Nanzi assists Tiger with picking avocadosDescription: Nanzi pretends to help Tiger with picking avocados but in fact he injures him and steals them.Content: Tiger has a garden full with fruit trees. Every day he fills up his baskets with avocados to sell them at the market. When Nanzi's daughter passes by and is given an avocado by Tiger, Nanzi smells the avocado when she gets home. He immediately goes to Tiger to help him picking. The next day he can come back to help. But then Nanzi brings an iron ball. From the tree he throws the ball on Tiger, as if it were an avocado. Tiger drops unconscious and Nanzi steals the avocados.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...
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DANS Data Station Social Sciences and Humanities

Publication year

2012

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