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Akha notebook 906

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha mourning songs, personal narratives and a list of classifiers and words they are used with.
Date: 1981-10-31/1981-11-06
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 123

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and narratives including njí-phà Sjhí ə and conversations with njí-phà Àphiphò with partial English glossing. Includes hand drawn map of the houses and landmarks in Maeby village.
Date: 1982/1983-12-25
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 124

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives recited by njí-phà Sjhí ə in Maeby village about dragons, spirits, rituals, and healing.
Date: 1982/2016
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 120

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs, narratives, and ritual recitations about offerings to ancestors, good and bad omens, months, and taboos.
Date: 1982-10-08/1982-10-09
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 121

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and narratives including mì dàq sjhí ŋɛ tshɔ́ ŋö́ ŋö́ ə and zə́ zà mə́ zə́ zà zə́ sháŋ thúy, which are sung for young (unmarried) Akhas' deaths and for the youngest child in a family, respectively.
Date: 1982-10-10/1982-10-14
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 122 A

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha formulaic expressions and the context where they are used, elicited sentences, and grammar notes.
Date: October 25, 1982
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 122 B

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of Akha songs and narratives including njí-phà Sjhí ə, songs for newborn babies, and descriptions of death rituals and sacrificing animals like buffalo and pigs. Includes diagrams of utensils and instruments related to rituals.
Date: 1983-12-09/1983-12-12
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Access to Film and Video Works: Surrogates for Moving Image Documents

Description: This doctoral dissertation discusses access to film and video works. Physical and intellectual access to moving image documents is insufficient, often insignificant, at the level of the individual user. Existing access tools suffer from a lack of recognition of the differences between linguistic text communication and image communication. Browsing and relevance judgements are made difficult by the physical realities of film and video documents - one cannot flip through them - and by the habits … more
Date: 1984
Creator: O'Connor, Brian Clark
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Akha death rituals: A preliminary translation

Description: Typed descriptions of Akha death ritual recitations and practices divided into 22 chapters including English translations, handwritten notes, diacritics, and page numbering, and a table of contents summarizing each chapter. Original Akha clauses appear in a numbered list with corresponding English clause-level translations on the following page.
Date: 1984
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Akha notebook 126

Description: Handwritten notes and transcriptions of narratives recited by njí-phà Sjhí ə about Akha history, relations with the Shan people, snakes, and monkeys with partial English glossing.
Date: 1984?
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Call Number, Volume 45, Number 1, Fall 1984

Description: "Call Number, the newsletter of the School of Library and Information Sciences, North Texas State University, is distributed three times a year" (p. 2). The periodical contains information about professors, news in the department, the school's alumni and listings of class schedules for the following semesters.
Date: 1984
Creator: North Texas State University. School of Library and Information Sciences.
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A Comparison of Akha, Hani, Khàtú, and Pìj̀ɔ̀

Description: Pre-print of a manuscript and dataset later published as a journal article comparing the cognate forms and phoneme inventories of 4 Lolo-Burmese languages: Akha, Hani, Khàtú, and Pìj̀ɔ̀. Includes handwritten notes, examples, and word lists comparing modern forms and Proto-Lolo-Burmese reconstructions.
Date: 1984~
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
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Call Number, Volume 45, Number 2, Spring 1985

Description: "Call Number, the newsletter of the School of Library and Information Sciences, North Texas State University, is distributed three times a year" (p. 2 of Vol. 45, No. 1). The periodical contains information about professors, news in the department, the school's alumni and listings of class schedules for the following semesters.
Date: 1985
Creator: North Texas State University. School of Library and Information Sciences.
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