Dr. Anneke de Vries

Tributes

• Remembering Siti Rahmawati Chaniago · 2y ago

  Dutch linguist who worked with her

  In 1999 we travelled to Payakumbuh to record an elderly storyteller. In the rain, on a bus, she translated every proverb for me and explained which ones were jokes. I published our paper in Leiden. The best sentence in it is hers.