Documenting Hadza 2019-2021: A retrospective
Channel: Andrew Harvey - Linguist
Date: 2022-12-11

Note: This talk has not gone through a process of peer review, and findings should therefore be treated as preliminary and subject to change.

How to cite: Harvey, Andrew. 2022. Documenting Hadza 2019-2021: A retrospective. Talk given at the Research Colloquium for African Verbal and Visual Arts, University of Bayreuth. 06/12/2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7393315

Documentary linguistics is a major subfield of linguistics interested in the creation of lasting, multi-purpose records of languages. This talk provides an in-depth look at one such documentary linguistic project – a project documenting the Hadza language, funded by the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP), which took place from 2019 to 2021. Following some brief context, both on the Hadza language and on the researchers, the talk 1) presents the documentary project in a stepwise fashion from preparation to project setup to daily activities to archiving; 2) reviews some outputs of the project, and 3) reflects on feedback from the Hadza people themselves who were involved in the documentary project. 

00:00 Introduction
00:56 A Note on the Data
01:08 Language Contexts
05:18 A Note on the Linguists
07:14 The Documentation as a Project
21:28 The Outputs of the Documentation
22:29 Reflections from the Local Researchers
26:38 Conclusion
28:43 Acknowledgements
29:17 References

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