Themes

Traditional knowledge on productive activities, processes and techniques

Here the knowledge, skills, abilities, skills, symbols are included, uses and processes related to group activities of adaptation to the environment (agricultural, livestock, forestry, fishing, mining), as well as activities related to the production, processing and preparation of products and systems of exchange and donation. So here are the crafts and their technologies, skills and knowledge associated with production processes. Similarly, knowledge of building systems of various forms of room and other ancillary buildings. Also the organization of spaces in connection with the land and with the meaning of landscapes

Beliefs, rituals and other festive ceremonial practices

Beliefs about nature and the environment (flora, fauna, environment, weather,) as well as those associated with the protection of the individual or the community against nature. Beliefs about factors or people who generate evils and diseases, ways of prevention and prophylaxis, diagnostic procedures, treatments, health and healing. Rituals of the life cycle: rites of courtship, dating, marriage, marriage, conception, pregnancy, labor, birth, death and bereavement forms. Of particular importance for its complexity and capacity unifying cultural elements participatory rituals, both work-related and activities such as holidays specifically, whether secular, religious or hybrid character.

Oral tradition and linguistic features

Oral traditions and expressions, including language (languages ​​and dialects, jargons, lexical and place names) and all those subject to sound productions code that served, among other things, the collective communication: the highlights bell, whistles, etc.. Also included in this section, the popular literature (string literature, romances, tales, legends, mythical stories, songs, sayings, proverbs, sayings, ejaculations, prayers, dictates topical humor, metaphors, conversational forms) oral history and life stories.

Representations, performances, traditional games and sports

Theatrical and para-theatrical performances, when it comes to entertainment that distinguishes and separates the actors from the spectators. Choreography, dances and paloteos, dances, etc.. Traditional games and sports. Traditional forms of recreation, playgrounds and adults with their instruments, etc..

Music and sound Festivals

Musical compositions and instrumental performance. Single Sing a duet or traditional musical groups. Choral societies and choirs. Other sounds rooted in the community (percussion, sounds associated with work activities, mascletás, drumming, sounds, maps, etc..).

Nutrition

Culinary knowledge and diets. Forms of conservation, flavoring and food processing according to the annual cycle. Plates and consumption in the daily cycle. Preferences and taboos nutrition. Spaces, grounds and commensal rituals.

Collective forms of sociability and Organizations

Social practices, standards of conduct, rules of hospitality that have traditionally served to groups or communities constituting part of their identity and are threatened by the lifestyles disseminated by the mass media, economic development and tourism impact . Forms of social organization, governed by customary laws and traditional institutions (collective forms of communal sharing of goods, water courts, labor brotherhoods, irrigation norms, open council, lots, etc..). Formal and informal organizations that organize and regulate the festive dynamics (brotherhoods, commissions, associations, clubs, etc.). Kinship and family systems. Kinship structures, rules of family organization, rules of residence and affiliation, as well as traditional methods of inheritance.