EtnoAntropologia (Jan 2021)
Ritualità d’alta quota, tra politiche culturali e sostenibilità
Abstract
The Italian Western Alpine chain in the last three decades witnessed a considerable process of depopulation, demographic decline and reduction to marginal lands. Recentlysome local associations aim at protecting their surrounding environment but also at revitalizing regional economy through the reintroduction of local and historically documented cultivations, implementing - sometimes even unconsciously - a real capitalization of what was the know-how but also the community moments that revolved around different practices. In particular, the activity of devoting a specific celebration to ancient crafts, artifacts and traditional clothes, but also to the products of specific crops is a means of attracting tourists and implementing the tourist market.
