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Conversation about chronic illness

Description: Recording of a group discussion about someone who had been sick in the family. Thangpuii talks about feeling bad about getting sick and causing trouble for the family, and the other family members reassure her that she hasn't caused any trouble and there are plenty of people to take care of her. There is also informal background conversation on the recording.
Date: [1980,1986]
Duration: 32 minutes 37 seconds
Creator: Rema, C. L.
Partner: UNT College of Information

Analytical discussion of dialectal variation

Description: Discussion and comparison of two Mizo dialects: the northern and southern dialect. For example, "in the north we say X, and in the south we say Y." The male speaker is from the south, and the female speaker is from the north.
Date: 1985
Duration: 1 minute 09 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Letter to a family member

Description: Recording of a personal letter to a family member who is traveling, updating them on the children at home.
Date: November 23, 1985
Duration: 10 minutes 20 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Letter to a family member

Description: Recording of a personal letter to a family member who is traveling. Teenage cousins are having informal conversation and joking.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 3 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Letter to a family member

Description: Recording of Biaki updating their family members on what has happened in the family while they've been traveling, and how the cousins are doing.
Date: November 13, 1985
Duration: 11 minutes 13 seconds
Creator: Biaki
Partner: UNT College of Information

Letter to a family member

Description: Recording of a personal letter to a family member who is traveling. Other family members are talking in the background.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 2 minutes 25 seconds
Creator: Chhangte, Lalnunthangi
Partner: UNT College of Information

Letter to a family member: jokes

Description: Recording of a personal letter to a family member who is traveling which includes jokes in the style of stories. One story is about a man selling his rice on the black market to secretly get money and buy alcohol, even though he lives by himself and doesn't need to hide his drinking from anybody.
Date: November 18, 1985
Duration: 16 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Lalawia
Partner: UNT College of Information

Monologue on family members

Description: Recording of Thangpuii, Lalnunthangi Chhangte's paternal grandmother, describing her husband and his family. She tells what she can remember about his childhood.
Date: November 1985
Duration: 31 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Thangpuii
Partner: UNT College of Information
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