"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小组将在墨西哥瓦哈卡州Totontepec县的一个种植季节中，对与Ayöök玉米有关的农业实践进行濒危语言记录。有两个目标：1。运用语言文献的方法，唤起人们对世界上产量最高、营养最丰富的玉米品种之一几近灭绝的种植区域的记忆；和2。应用语言学数据来指导遗传分析，从而在世界范围内改进玉米品种。语言学家和电影制作人将采用一种改编自Passamaquoddy文档（SIL代码PQM）的方法，该方法使用纪录片技术、演讲者促进器和视频反馈程序来记录自然的群体对话和活动，包括记忆、口述历史、实践和相关的语言使用。这些数据将告知遗传学家，选择形成Ayöök玉米品种的属性的动机和活动。在一个将植物的所有部分用于服装、建筑材料、药物和营养的生命系统的背景下理解这些实践，可以阐明通过农业实践，期望的性状是如何在基因组中分子结构的。这反过来又会导致将这些特性引入其他地方种植的玉米的能力。该文件还将帮助年轻的农民，他们希望回到传统的做法，因为一代化学农业造成了广泛的生态破坏，并中断了相关语言的传播。最后，该项目将形成一个可扩展的视觉和语言实践和语言档案，以保证保存宝贵的土著农业知识，代表濒危领域和相关语言复兴的一个例子。

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.