Etnografía de la pala del pan: de la casa asturiana a la dualidad del patrimonio tangible-intangible

The Asturian rural house was a unit of production, consumption and reproduction. In this complex framework, bread (wheat, spelled and rye) was the basis of the family s diet. The cycle of bread, from the soil to the table, was present on all house aspects: the economic, the social and the symbolic and ritual. Within this field, despite its apparent simplicity, the so-called bread shovel stood out because it came into direct contact with the bread and it was loaded with multiple meanings, depending on who and when it was used. The ethnographic analysis of this object serves as a model to deal with the issue of the tangible-intangible heritage duality that characterizes ethnographic heritage today.