Anansi Masters - Documentation

Anansi Masters - the story continues 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 beginni... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Hellwig, Drs J.C. (Hellwig Productions AV / Vista Far Reaching Visuals Foundation)
Dokumenttyp: Dataset
Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
Schlagwörter: Modern and contemporary history / Language and literature studies / Dramaturgy / Language and literature studies of other language groups / Cultural anthropology / Leisure and recreation studies / Arts and culture / Social sciences / Anansi Masters / Anansi / storytelling / immaterial cultural heritage / slave trade / trickster / oral culture / visual anthropology / Africa / African diaspora / Carribbean / Curacao / Kweku Ananse / Nanzi / slavery / Aruba
Sprache: Englisch
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Permalink: https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-28866803
Datenquelle: BASE; Originalkatalog
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Anansi Masters - the story continues 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 and videos that were made for documentation or marketing purposes are published on Youtube. Since 2012 all films of Anansi Masters were uploaded to Youtube and linked to the Anansi Masters website. Their display is embedded in the website together with the respective metadata that are entered through a custom made content management system (CMS). In March 2012, public storytelling events were organized by Drs. Jean Hellwig (Hellwig Productions AV / Vista Far Reaching Visuals Foundation) on the islands of Curacao and Aruba. Any professional or non-professional storyteller was invited to tell a story in front of the Anansi Masters camera and the available audience. Storytellers were free to choose their story and language. Each storyteller had to agree that the video registration of their story could be made available for open access. Storytellers were asked in front of the camera to answer a few questions about who they are and how they selected the story that they told. The Anansi Masters project started in 2007 with the registration of Kweku Ananse stories in Ghana and The Netherlands. The storytelling events organized on Curacao and Aruba in 2012 were part of the second phase 'Anansi Masters - the story continues'. The project registers contemporary ways of storytelling from an old tradition and aims to stimulate and revitalize the Nanzi storytelling by making the storytelling ...