Documenting the ‘made world’ and endangered knowledge

EMKP has been featured on the Museum Ethnographer’s Group blog, which discusses our aims and what we do.

Here is a short passage from the post:

EMKP’s broad aims also raise questions that need to be addressed in order to further ethnographic documentation methods. Some of these include:

• How do we best capture knowledge using digital recording methods?
•  How do we preserve culturally-specific knowledge?
•  How do we approach different knowledge systems and modes of understanding?
• What type of metadata and repository structure is most suitable for such a diversity of data?

The programme is beginning to explore these issues through its first round of grantees who are now beginning their fieldwork.

The post can be read in full here.