Rural Communities in Ecuador Relations between Culture Nature Disasters Tourism and Cultural Heritage

General objective Investigate and analyze from an anthropological perspective, the struggles of meanings around the existing practices and visions in 4 rural communities of the country in relation to cultural heritage, community tourism and the relationship with nature and risk, to incorporate criteria anthropological studies that give guidelines and clarify the problem of the diversity of visions and practices on popular culture, local cultural heritage, disaster risk and community exercise of tourism.