‘Endangered Material Knowledge Programme’ (EMKP) training week at British Museum

Sharing some snippets from the ‘Endangered Material Knowledge Programme’ (EMKP) training week at British Museum in September 2025. The training was for the new grantees to prepare them for material culture documentation and post-fieldwork components of their projects.

Jayashree Bardhan, co-investigator of the project, ‘From Earth to Inhabited Space: Life Cycle of Mud Plastering in the Tribal Agricultural Landscape of Jharkhand’ attended the training along with the other representatives of the 2025 cohort.

The sessions oriented participants to audio-visual documentation and processing, metadata, ethics of documentation and community engagement, fieldwork techniques, etc. through theoretical and practical sessions, encouraging communication amongst participants. 

The week was an excellent introduction to the project process along with being an opportunity to get to know the cohort and the EMKP team! 

We look forward to the project and appreciate EMKP for the training week!

Photographs:
1. Group photograph of the 2025 trainees. Photo Credit: Emily Tarry
2. Orientation by Lissant Bolton. Photo Credit: Paula Granados
3. Session by Paula Granados. Photo Credit: Jayashree Bardhan
4. One of the practical sessions on audio-visual documentation. Photo Credit: Paula Granados
5 & 6. At the ethnographic drawing workshop. Drawings: Jayashree Bardhan; Photo Credit: Paula Granados