Ethnology, as a science linked to traditional and popular culture, deals with all those manifestations, beliefs, knowledge and activities through which immovable, movable and immaterial goods are generated that determine the identity of a people, community or civilisation.
With the contemporary definition of cultural goods, which, beyond the valuation and temporal criteria related to the artistic, ancient and historical, considers the intrinsic meaning of objects and representations, ethnological heritage has new opportunities for valorisation, conservation and dissemination.
However, the cultural and museological reality still often provides adverse, unfavourable or, at the very least, complex scenarios for the management of ethnological assets. Social and institutional awareness of the importance of traditional and popular culture is the key to reversing this type of situation, which must find strategies for promotion and development.
L'ETNO, Museu Valencià d'Etnologia is collaborating in this technical meeting, which is being held in three venues, with the participation of Isabel Álvarez, the museum's restorer.
