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5 Field Moments that Shaped ETHNOMAD & the Fading Cultures Project
From the brick kilns of Sumatra's Minangkabau to the Garo villages of northern Bangladesh, ETHNOMAD was shaped in the field, where culture, land, memory, and consequence meet.
1. Madagascar: When Development Needed Storytelling
Silk-making, forest communities, and film as a tool for dignity and visibility.
2. Sumatra: When Conservation Became Human
Brick kilns, fuel, forest loss, labour, and local livelihoods.
4. Pakistan: When an Old Art Nearly DisappearedRogan painting, Fayyaz Ahmad, oil-based painting traditions, and South Asian knowledge histories.
5. Bangladesh: When the Garo Record Became a Living Model Language, matrilineal land, food, song, education, guesthouse, and field-based conservation ethnography.
Rajasthan: The Gurjar Girls
5. Tanzania: When the Royal Dance and Drum
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