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Anansi Masters - Curacao G16 - Aniceta, Khaylly-Ann - Nanzi wants to become King

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

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doi:10.17026/dans-xup-g5eb (DOI)

easy-dataset:52422 (DANS-KNAW)

Anansi Masters G16 (DANS-KNAW)

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Nanzi wants to become King told by Khaylly-Ann Aniceta, recorded on video for the Anansi Masters project in Curacao.Subject: Revenge by Tiger who fools Nanzi.Description: Due to a trick by Tiger, the animals think that their newly crowned King Nanzi disrespects his people.Content: Nanzi, fed up with being poor, decides to have himself crowned King. Tiger thinks this is the perfect opportunity to fool Nanzi. The night before the crowning, Tiger smears the throne with glue. The next day at the crowning, Nanzi is stuck to the throne when the animals who are present want him to speech. Because he can not stand up, the animals feel disrespected and beat Nanzi up.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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