"RAPID" A Critical Audiovisual Documentation of Endangered Ayook (ISO-939-3 MTO) Maize Cultivation Practices and Language with Dual Linguistics and Genetics Applications

一个由语言学家、电影制作人和植物遗传学家组成的跨学科团队将在墨西哥瓦哈卡州托通特佩克县的一个种植季节，对与艾约克玉米有关的农业实践进行濒危语言记录。有两个目标：1.应用语言记录方法来唤起人们对世界上最高产、最有营养的玉米品种之一几近灭绝的种植领域的记忆；2.应用语言数据来指导遗传分析，从而导致世界范围内的玉米品种改良。语言学家和电影制片人将采用一种改编自PassamAquoddy(Sil码PQM)记录的方法，使用记录技术、演讲者促进器和视频反馈例程来记录自然群体的对话和活动，包括记忆、口述历史、实践和相关的语言使用。这些数据将让遗传学家了解为形成艾约克玉米品种而选择的属性的动机和活动。在一个将植物的所有部分用于服装、建材、药物和营养的生命系统中理解这些实践，可以澄清期望的特征是如何通过农业实践在基因组中进行分子结构的。这反过来可以将这些属性引入到其他地方种植的玉米中。在一代以化学为基础的农业造成了广泛的生态破坏并中断了相关语言的传播后，文件还将帮助那些希望回归传统做法的年轻农民。最后，该项目将建立一个可扩展的做法和语言的视觉和语言档案，以保证有价值的土著农业知识得以保存，这是濒危领域和相关语言复兴的一个范例。

An interdisciplinary team of linguists, filmmakers and plant geneticists will conduct endangered language documentation of agricultural practices associated with Ayöök maize over the course of one planting season in the county of Totontepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. There are two objectives:1. Apply language documentation methods to revive memory of a near extinct domain of cultivation of one of the world's most productive and nutritious corn varieties; and 2. Apply the linguistic data to guide a genetic analysis that can lead to improved corn varieties worldwide.Linguists and filmmakers will employ a methodology adapted from documentation of Passamaquoddy (SIL code PQM) that uses documentary techniques, speaker facilitators, and video feedback routines to record natural group conversation and activity, including memories, oral histories, practices and associated language use. This data will inform the geneticists as to motivations and activities that selected for attributes that shaped Ayöök corn varieties. Understanding these practices in the context of a life system that used all parts of the plant for clothing, building materials, and medicine, as well as nutrition, can clarify how desired traits were molecularly structured in the genome through agricultural practices. This can lead in turn to the ability to introduce these attributes into corn grown elsewhere.The documentation will also help younger farmers who desire to return to traditional practices after a generation of chemically-based agriculture caused extensive ecological damage and interrupted transmission of associated language. Finally, the project will lead to an expandable visual and linguistic archive of practices and language that will guarantee the preservation of valuable indigenous agricultural knowledge, representing an example of the revival of endangered domains and associated language.