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JANUARY 2026
By the end of 2025, climate change was no longer framed as a future risk. It had become a daily condition shaping how people live, work, and move across landscapes. Global temperatures hovered around the 1.5°C threshold, not as an abstract benchmark but as lived experience. Prolonged heatwaves across South Asia and ... Read
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The documentary is part of a Media Campaign to raise awareness about the negative impacts of teak monoculture. It highlights the experiences of elderly indigenous persons regarding indigenous agricultural practices and the surrounding environment before and after the introduction of teak monoculture.
Join ETHNOMAD’s River Transect: Climate and Change, a journey tracing the Teesta River from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal. Discover how tribal, Indigenous, and river-based communities live, adapt, and sustain their traditions amid shifting waters and a changing climate. Explore stories of resilience, heritage, and hope at ethnomad.com and fadingcultures.org.
Gandhara Art from Bamiyan to Peshawar:
A Heritage We Cannot Afford to Lose
Pakistan holds one of the oldest links to true oil painting, yet that heritage is slipping through our fingers. If we do not protect it now, the knowledge and the craft will fade for good. Our upcoming story looks at why this history matters, and why Pakistan must act before it is too late.
Yarning:
A Research Method
ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELD GUIDE Part Three Coming February
Discover the Art of Ethnography
In many oral traditional communities, knowledge is not written down. It is carried in stories, shared through conversation, and passed on through trust built over time. Yarning is how this happens.
This piece explores yarning as a way of listening that goes beyond interviews or surveys. It is how people speak when they feel heard rather than studied. Through yarning, history, land, belief, and memory emerge naturally, shaped by relationship rather than extraction.
Conventional research often fails in oral societies not because knowledge is absent, but because it is held differently. Yarning respects this. It slows the process, removes pressure, and allows stories to unfold on their own terms.
At ETHNOMAD, yarning guides how we work in the field. More than a method, it is a commitment to listening carefully and honouring the voices that carry knowledge forward.
The November issue of Fading Cultures Magazine takes readers deep into the heart of humanity’s shared heritage, where stories, landscapes, and traditions reveal how culture endures through change. From Dr. Tom Corcoran’s Worlds Within Worlds and Emily Anna Mavradou’s A Glimpse Into the Past to Noel Sweeney’s poetic Because in Stories All Things Are Possible, the edition explores memory, creativity, and resilience. Suus Van Lee’s Acomadido and the Children of Rajasthan and Jade Morrissey’s The Emery Way highlight lives shaped by land and legacy, while James Pierce reflects on Intangible Cultural Heritage and the quiet power of tradition. The issue closes with The Ethnographic Handbook by Tom Corcoran and Roel Hakemulder, offering guidance on ethical fieldwork. On the cover, Sebastian Rich’s striking photograph from Kraska village captures the strength of Gurjar women in Rajasthan, embodying the spirit of endurance that defines this powerful edition.