Ethnographic: limited to record and describe cultural events and phenomena.
Ethnology: analysis and comparison with other cultures.
Promoting agents for ethnographic activities can be the civil society, political
powers and specific social groups (e.g. religious, craftsmen, etc.)
Thanks to tourism, many rural areas have maintained or recovered their traditional
social and economic heritage combining it with socio-economic progress.
Increasing number of tourists are interested in authenticity and historic backgrounds.
It is free if based on a living local culture, and everybody can enjoy it. It gives
the destination an air of distinction and respectability, and does not depend on
seasonality.
We must preserve it for the sake and usefulness to society: education, tourism,
sustainability.
Observe the elements to be taken into account when researching the ethnographic
heritage.
The interpretation is a critical element when putting in value the ethnographic
heritage.
Ethnographic heritage is established and protected within a legislative framework.
