Credit where credit is due 4/8

Travel update: I’m back in Limol! A very quick trip through Sydney, Cairns, Moresby, Daru, and Upiara in just two and a half days!

Running update: Back to my every other day routine, trailed by a gaggle of children. I would write about it more if it were more interesting. Lack of food, abundance of sun, and rolled ankles keep me at a cautious pace, but I’m feeling happy. A, meanwhile, is killing it - he ran the Cherry Blossom 10-miler in 32 degrees this morning!

Language update: this week has been about settling in and typing up all the transcriptions that Tonny and Warama completed while I was in Canberra. They did amazing work! Hope to get to some more fun activities soon. 

Writing update: I’m very excited about my writing progress! While in Canberra I was able to complete rough drafts of four chapters to send my advisors! I’ve decided to devote weekends to writing this trip, and each weekend I’ll spend two days on a different chapter. This weekend was Chapter 1, the introduction.

The introduction had three main parts: a linguistic introduction, a cultural introduction, and a historical introduction. Since so much of the knowledge that fills these sections comes from interviews with Limol residents AND since my interviews are citeable within the PARADISEC archive, I’ve made the obvious decision to cite all my information directly to the people that told me! Thus, I can say something like: The Ende tribe has between 600 and 1000 people. Many writers would just leave it at that, but I can actually cite the person that told me that figure and where it is in the recording: (Dareda, 2018:96)! Then, Jerry Dareda’s name will be in the references along side all my other sources. Additionally, I spent some time this weekend making a speaker index, so that any interested Ende speaker can see every single page number on which a contribution of theirs is cited, whether it’s a citation to their recording or an actual example of their speech used to illustrate a grammatical point. Not only will this help people navigate the already 100+ page document, but it also makes it clear how much their words and knowledge are used throughout the book! I haven’t seen this type of citation or indexing work done in other works of this type, and I know I’m probably not the first, but I’m really happy with how the document is turning out so far.