NEWSLETTER

THIRD ISSUE (September 2024)

Issue 3 includes the announcement of the 2024 cohort of grantees, our first Legacy Digitisation Grant, community engagement as a new funding category, the latest release to the repository, and a new ‘News Bites’ feature where we aim to share the most recent news on dissemination work led by EMKP grantees.

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The Women Fishers of Rufiji, Tanzania

Marie-Annick Moreau

In this article, Marie-Annick, EMKP grantee explores the important role that women play in the Rufiji District, giving us a glimpse into what a day of fieldwork with the fishers looks like.

SECOND ISSUE (June 2024)

Issue 2 of the EMKP newsletter includes updates about changes to the team, features on the work of our grantees, and new releases to the EMKP repository.

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Signs of Nostalgia in Ho Chi Minh City

Rachel Tough

In this special issue, Rachel Tough, EMKP grantee, explores the nostalgia of sign painting in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and how a boom in retro-themed cafés and markets is encouraging people to take interest in the endangered practice of sign painting. Café owner Trần Quốc Quang reflected, “the old and rustic spirit of Saigon is attractive to today’s city dwellers, and I see the use of these old signs as a form of cultural transmission (truyền văn hóa) for arts that risk fading into obscurity”.

FIRST ISSUE  (December 2023)

Welcome to the EMKP newsletter! In this issue, we present this resource which we hope will be a way to stay in touch with the community, disseminate grantee work, share the latest EMKP news, and new uploads to the repository!

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Keeping the Hammer’s Voice Alive

Emilia Ferraro and Sandra Wilson (with Elizabeth Hicks)

Ecuadorian silversmithing can be compared to an eco-system: a community of interacting organisms and their physical environment, a complex network of interconnected systems. Like all ecosystems, this one has a dangerous predator: the encroaching global economy. More and more Ecuadorian artisans are being forced to migrate elsewhere for better economic opportunities; whilst others are being driven from their craft by the rising price of materials and loss of access to natural resources. Under this mounting pressure, workshops are being closed, skillsets lost, and intergenerational networks of knowledge transmission shattered…