A work that was missing in the panorama of the thematic essays in Friuli, from the beginning of the demo-ethno anthropology in the 1970s. A book capable of conveying information and suggestions to specialists, but also to the widest audience of onlookers and enthusiasts for the use of an attractive and easy-to-understand illustrative register, far from schematic ever more often addressed to a limited circle of initiates, which they hide the inability to combine the depth of content with the difficult art of disclosure.