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Since the early 20th century, local crafts resulting from a constantly invented identity have been an important source of mementoes for travelers wishing to demonstrate a successful meeting with Otherness and Elsewhere. Between the desire to show a change of scenery and the demonstration of one’s image, these crafts express a foreign culture as much as a local one. Based in a strategy of economic survival and using obvious stereotypes immediately understood by tourists while patrimonializing skills, crafts reveal adhesion to a way of life during vacations.