16.01.2013

Dialoge zur Anthropologie (radio piece)

Dialoge zur Anthropologie - a radio play by Jan Jelinek (composition & realisation), Language: German. First broadcast: 5th February 2013, 11.03 PM on SWR. Click here for more information (download).
The radio play is based on fictional/speculative fieldrecordings of the Tasaday, a tribe of "Stone Age Cavemen", which have been discovered in Mindanao, Philippines, 1971. The Tasaday's original conversations are reproduced by text-to-speech-programs. The story of their discovery is a fictional reconstruction, based on original quotes by journalists and scientists.

 

Jan Jelinek: Dialoge zur Anthropologie (excerpt), 2013