Ep 21: Community-Based Documentation with Sheena Shah

This week’s episode is with Sheena Shah, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Hamburg in Germany. She is currently working on a 2-year project documenting siPhuthi.  Sheena has conducted linguistic fieldwork on a number of languages in Southern Africa, including several indigenous click languages. Sheena’s mother tongue is Gujarati and for her Ph.D., she worked with Gujarati diaspora communities in London, Johannesburg, and Singapore.

N/uu orthography workshop in 2014 in Upington, South Africa

Things mentioned in this episode:

Video recording session in the Daliwe river valley (Lesotho)
Mobile home used during fieldwork in Lesotho

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