This video provides a raw, ethnographic look at the intersection of traditional labor and communal ritual in Jaffna's palm toddy culture. It is a vital piece of visual anthropology that preserves a localized way of life against the tide of global homogenization.
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நயினாதீவு கள்ளுக்கடை... அன்று மாலை... நடந்த அந்த சம்பவம்! | Jaffna Toddy Shop | Jaffna suthanAdded:
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>> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Ah, you see from the The from the Palmyra. Ah, you want the Little bit kunjum. Yeah, little. Okay. No, no, but good.
You drunk. Yeah.
Like a coconut.
This Palmyra drink.
Okay. Okay, enough. No, no, no, no, no.
You you drink. This is okay, enough.
Give back.
Throw outside.
Are you sure?
You want to drink? No, no, no, no.
Because I already drink. You know, just a gift little.
It's okay.
They have a book. They they a some bottle.
>> Yeah. But, in that island also have But, you want this, but when you bring from here the alcohol level is increased in evening.
I I No, for me I don't want to drink it. I just to see they're lost.
Uh okay, no problem.
>> [laughter] >> But, it's okay. Taste Okay, I okay.
Yeah, for me it's okay.
Give me your phone. I will take photo.
Okay.
Okay. Which See you.
>> [laughter] >> Okay.
>> [laughter] >> Oh, so they drink a lot. Yeah.
Drink very a lot.
It's fish 10 kilos 10 kilos morning night 10 kilos He just No No petrol No diesel.
>> [laughter] >> diesel in there You He is a That's all.
What day?
Tomorrow is his birthday.
No problem.
>> [laughter] >> Okay.
Singing song.
Okay.
Okay. Thank you.
Yeah, wait. I will give you a call.
>> [laughter] [clears throat] [laughter] >> One shot.
I guess he's drinking.
But good for the climate. Very cooling. This one. Yeah.
>> For the hard working people.
50 years 58 years old.
How strong? Tough fisherman.
12 years old, he says 12 years he went to the fishing.
Hi.
Okay.
Okay.
This is his son.
>> Kitchen, kitchen.
Island kitchen.
Is that mama? Ice. It's cooked. Okay.
Dry fish.
Very expensive. Which one? And Ah, this one yesterday?
Sea cucumber.
Oh.
Dry fish.
One is 1,000 rupees.
>> [clears throat] >> One more than 1 lakh.
More than 1 lakh.
100,000 rupees.
1 and 8 1,800 rupees.
1 kilo.
Hey, see here. Big one.
You want to touch?
Big one after boil like this.
Same thing after boil.
You can take.
2,000 price. Both.
What? 2,000 for Both are 1 1,000 1,000 2,000.
>> [laughter] >> Export to China, right?
It's coconut. You drink coconut drink?
So we are saying it's a very small one. is with the fish curry.
This with fish curry. Yeah.
What do you wish here or there?
This is fish fry.
>> Fish fry. Yeah, it's a fried fish. Yeah.
Coconut. Yeah.
>> [laughter] >> Coconut. Coconut.
No, no, just Is it finished?
There are some people climbing the coconut and palmyra.
Super.
Be careful.
Be careful.
Go.
Not every half. Not every half. Some separate.
Not every half. Some separate.
And there's some sweet and some is not a sweet. Yeah.
And there's some meat. Huh? Have a meat?
Meat, meat?
Have a meat?
No, no. Cutting.
Honey, I'm I mean don't have a juice, but I have a have a coconut meat.
>> milk, coconut milk. Yeah.
Coconut, coconut.
>> yeah.
I tell you nice.
Hey, look.
Okay.
Oh.
What I mean?
Oh.
You can't put.
Yeah. For me, I can't. I never would.
But there's always In China have like this? Yeah, we have. You have to. You have a coconut. Coconut, yeah.
>> But in another my city, another city In villages.
>> Thailand. High Thailand, Thailand.
>> No, no. High Thailand. High Thailand.
High Thailand, sweetie. We have a coconut. Thailand, Thailand.
Thailand. Not the Thailand. High High Thailand. In China, in China.
Yeah.
Uh-huh.
They seem to have a coconut. It's a It's a peach. Mhm. Yeah, so we Yeah.
We are hiding the cheese in smoking smoking But for me I can't That's all.
Very talented.
Yeah.
Okay.
Just tell me. Okay.
What the climate? I need Do we eat coconut?
For me.
You you eat here.
So we need to take this home.
This pitou pitou you have now pitou like our home. Fish fry.
Fish is fried. Yeah.
coconut coconut Uh some people they >> I don't know I don't know for you enough or no better for Nobody knows what that >> [laughter] >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah for Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Is that okay?
No, I think What time is it here? Okay. After don't go to the temple. No temple, we can't go directly to the >> Yeah, because of the time Good. Good. Uncle's uncle's food. Yeah.
>> [laughter] [laughter] >> In the birthday birthday and holiday >> [laughter] [clears throat] [laughter] >> Okay.
Okay.
If uh not the you want to go to the 99 80 points You're on the You're on the way to get in.
Sorry, I don't know they will be able to go for a run.
I don't know if they will be able to go for a run. I don't know what to do.
I don't know what to do.
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