Central and South America

20 Ongoing Projects

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

The Uke – Montserrat’s Last Locally Crafted Musical Instrument

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

12 August 2022

Indigenous women’s hand-spinning wool in the Ecuadorian Highlands

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

Keeping the Hammers’ Voice Alive

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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