Gruber, Martin (2024): Traditional Beekeeping and Honey Hunting in Central Cameroon. Audiovisual Material, Video Footage [dataset]. Qualiservice, PANGAEA, https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.963249
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Published: 2024-12-20 • DOI registered: 2025-01-22
Abstract:
EN: The dataset consists of video recordings made for the ethnographic documentary 'Gbaya. Beekeeping and Honey Hunting' (Gruber 2015). The film portrays practices of traditional beekeeping and honey hunting with honeybees (Apis mellifera adansonii) in the Adamaoua Region of Central Cameroon. The film follows an accomplished beekeeper on a beekeeping excursion in the savanna landscape near the city of Ngaoundéré. Together with his family members, the beekeeper demonstrates the manufacturing of a traditional beehive from palm leaves and grass, the harvesting of honey from such a hive as well as the salvaging of honey from wild living honeybees. Ethnographic film was perceived here as an ethnographic research method in the sense of participant observation with a camera (Henley 2000). The archived material provides all the video footage on which the film is based. The material consists of footage of a beekeeper at work, as well as contextualizing interviews with the protagonist. The beekeeper gives important information about his practice and situates it as an element of Gbaya culture. Traditional beekeeping and honeyhunting are presented as economically and culturally significant activities that afford a high degree of manual skill and embodied knowledge.
DE: Der Datensatz umfasst Videoaufzeichnungen, die für den ethnografischen Dokumentarfilm 'Gbaya. Beekeeping and Honey Hunting' (Gruber 2015) in der Region Adamaoua in Kamerun entstanden sind. Der Film zeigt Praktiken der traditionellen Imkerei und Honigjagd mit Honigbienen (Apis mellifera adansonii) in der Region Adamaoua in Zentral-Kamerun. Der Film begleitet einen erfahrenen Imker auf einer Imkereiexkursion in der Savanne in der Nähe der Stadt Ngaoundéré. Zusammen mit seinen Familienmitgliedern demonstriert der Imker die Herstellung eines traditionellen Bienenstocks aus Palmblättern und Gras, die Honigernte aus einem solchen Bienenstock sowie die Gewinnung von Honig von wild lebenden Bienen. Ethnografischer Film wurde hier als eine ethnografische Forschungsmethode im Sinne der teilnehmenden Beobachtung mit der Kamera verwendet (Henley 2000). Das archivierte Filmmaterial umfasst das gesamte Rohmaterial des Films, einschließlich Interviews und informeller Gespräche. Der Imker gibt dabei wichtige Informationen über seine Praxis und verortet sie als Element der Gbaya Kultur. Bienen und Honig spielen eine zentrale Rolle in der ethnischen Gruppe der Gbaya, mit der er sich identifiziert. Die traditionelle Bienenzucht und Honigjagd werden als wirtschaftlich und kulturell bedeutsame Tätigkeiten dargestellt, die ein hohes Maß an handwerklichem Geschick und verkörpertem Wissen erfordern.
Related to:
Gruber, Martin (2015): Beekeeping Honey Hunting Ngaoundéré [audiovisual]. https://doi.org/10.18450/ethnoa-medien/35 (Ethnografic film: Film partly based on the archived video footage)
Gruber, Martin (2015): Gbaya: Beekeeping and Honey Hunting [audiovisual]. https://doi.org/10.18450/ethnoa-medien/34 (Ethnografic film: Film based on the archived video footage)
Gruber, Martin; Sanda, Mazi (2017): Honey Hunting from Earth Nests. Adamaoua Region of Cameroon [audiovisual]. https://doi.org/10.18450/ethnoa-medien/37 (Ethnografic film: Film from the same field site that was produced at a later date)
Gruber, Martin; Sanda, Mazi (2017): Improved Traditional Beekeeping. Adamaoua Region of Cameroon [audiovisual]. https://doi.org/10.18450/ethnoa-medien/38 (Ethnografic film: Film from the same field site that was produced at a later date)
Gruber, Martin; Sanda, Mazi (2017): Research on African Honey Bees Apis Mellifera Adansonii in Cameroon [audiovisual]. https://doi.org/10.18450/ethnoa-medien/39 (Ethnografic film: Film from the same field site that was produced at a later date)
Gruber, Martin; Sanda, Mazi (2019): Honey Hunting and Beekeeping in Adamaoua (Cameroon). Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, 108 S., https://www.koeppe.de/titel_honey-hunting-and-beekeeping-in-adamaoua-cameroon
Study report:
Gruber, Martin (2024): Traditional Beekeeping and Honey Hunting in Central Cameroon. Ethnographic Film Research. Study Report. Bremen: FDZ Qualiservice, 14 pp, https://doi.org/10.26092/ELIB/3316
Coverage:
Date/Time Start: 2015-03-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2015-04-30T00:00:00
Event(s):
BeeCultures_Footage * Date/Time Start: 2015-03-01T00:00:00 * Date/Time End: 2015-04-30T00:00:00 * Event type: DataCollection * Instrument: Guidelines.Flex * Methodology: The video data were created by means of ethnographic filming. The filmmaking was realised as form of participant observation with the help of a camera. * Mode of collection: FaceToFace * Location: Ngaoundéré, Cameroon * Campaign: BeeCultures (Traditional Beekeeping and Honey Hunting in Central Cameroon) * Method/Device: Ethnografischer Film (EthnografischerFilm)
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Comment:
EN: The data set contains data in the following languages: French, Fulfulde and Gbaya. The video footage is available for On-site use. The ethnographic film 'Gbaya. Beekeeping and Honey Hunting' and other ethnographic film material by Gruber on 'People, Bees and Honey in Cameroon' are freely available here: https://hu.berlin/ethnoa_cameroon
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| # | Name | Short Name | Unit | Principal Investigator | Method/Device | Comment |
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| 1 | Data ID | Data ID | ||||
| 2 | File name | File name | ||||
| 3 | General data format | Data format | ||||
| 4 | File format | File format | converted | |||
| 5 | File size | File size | kByte | kBytes 1024 | ||
| 6 | Event duration | Event duration | video duration | |||
| 7 | Device type | Device | ||||
| 8 | Data collection date | DC date | ||||
| 9 | Language | Language | ||||
| 10 | File content | Content | observational data; interview data; both | |||
| 11 | File content | Content | video title | |||
| 12 | Keywords | Keywords | Beekeeping; Honey hunting | |||
| 13 | Start offset | startOffset | video segments | |||
| 14 | End offset | endOffset | video segments | |||
| 15 | File content | Content | title segments | |||
| 16 | Annotation | Annotation | biology | |||
| 17 | Annotation | Annotation | anthropology | |||
| 18 | Keywords | Keywords | keywords segments |
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Qualiservice License (QS)
Size:
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