Americas

33 Ongoing Projects

27 July 2026

Safeguarding the Craft of Scissor-Net Making and Collective Fishing on the Pilcomayo River, Gran Chaco

27 July 2026

Boleadora: material knowledge, technological memory, and identity in Patagonia

27 July 2026

Shades of blue: traditional indigo dyeing in the Barrio de Mexicanos, San Cristóbal de Las Casas, Chiapas

27 July 2026

Safeguarding Ancestral Dyeing and Weaving Knowledge: Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Women of the Pacific Coast

27 July 2026

Jeipya: Knowledge and Practices of Native Cotton and Weaving among Paĩ Tavyterã Women

27 July 2026

House-Making in the Andean Highlands: Manual, Embodied and Digital Documentation of Earthen Construction Techniques in Argentina

27 July 2026

From the Gran Chaco to the Atacama Desert. Weaving Knowledge and Practices with Plant Fibers among Qom and Aymara people

27 July 2026

Hunter-gatherer material world under threat among the Aché of Alto Paraná (Paraguay)

27 July 2026

Box of Souls: Ritual and Memory in the Audiovisual Collection of the Asuriní of Xingu

2 September 2025

Weaving ancestral knowledge: Basketry digitalization from the native peoples of Tierra del Fuego

2 September 2025

The Changing Faces of Aruba: Collaborative Project of Documentation of a Mask of the Urarina People, Peruvian Amazon

2 September 2025

Material knowledge system associated to the hunting with fire of the A’uwé Xavante people in Central Brazil

2 September 2025

Nautical Atlas of Magdalena Medio’s Traditional Vessels

2 September 2025

From cloth to codices: investigating the purported kinship between two endangered fiber arts traditions in Mexico

2 September 2025

Knotted Survivors: Documenting the Ancient Khipu Traditions of Jucul, Peru

2 September 2025

Stone Stories: Documenting the Practices, Knowledge, and Skills of Stone Masonry Building among the Yucatec Maya of Campeche (Mexico)

2 September 2024

Weaving rivers and connecting communities: Documenting endangered traditional practices and associated knowledge among the Ye’Kwana indigenous people, Brazil

2 September 2024

Everyday tools for reproducing personhood in Guyanese Amazonia

2 September 2024

Documenting endangered traditional fishing technologies among the Kalapalo, Southern Amazon.

2 September 2024

Safeguarding the lifecycle of the “Jea”: Construction, utilisation and cosmology of an Indigenous Achuar House in the Central Western Amazon

2 September 2024

Endangered inter-generational knowledge and practice for Black Seminole descendants of Andros Island

2 September 2024

Made in Montserrat – Legacy Digitization for Material Objects in the National Museum of Montserrat Collection

22 August 2023

Weaving fibres of resistance: Tikuna tree bark and identity in the Amazon

22 August 2023

Dancing for Life: Documenting Cashinahua ritual paraphernalia in Peruvian Amazonia

22 August 2023

Rock Art Inter-Ontologies: Ethnography and Digital Safeguarding of Kumuã Knowledge on Petroglyph Sacred Places in Northwest Amazonia

12 August 2022

The “real design” knowledge among Huni Kuin weavers from the Peruvian Amazonia.

12 August 2022

The taste of life: the management of brazil nut orchards, cooking knowledge and traditional biotechnologies of the Tenharin of Amazonia

15 October 2021

The Bora Design System: Documenting the Knowledge Networks of Designs Made on Bodies and Objects in an Amerindian Ritual

15 October 2021

Living Libraries: Documenting Endangered Munduruku Materiality, Brazilian Amazonia

15 October 2021

Mapping Lafkenche Foodways: Water-based Livelihoods in the Land of the Sea

10 November 2020

Oga Pysy: Guarani and Kaiowá Ceremonial Houses in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil

10 November 2020

Andean Potter’s Knowledge: Ceramic Production, Circulation and Use in Southern Ecuador and Northern Peru

30 September 2019

Upper Xingu Material Culture in the Past, Present and Future: Collaborative Documentation of a Multiethnic Tradition in Brazilian Amazonia

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