The purpose of the study was to understand how the members of the Guangopolo community appropriate, preserve and re-signify their ancestral culture in everyday life, using the ethnographic method with field work that combined in-depth interviews, participant observation and a subsequent triangulation of sources, this methodological strategy was based on Geertz’s [1] proposal to investigate and interpret a complex categorical system that is expressed in various dimensions of the symbolic consciousness of the community. The findings of this research reveal that the Andean cosmovision emerges as an articulating axis of the symbolic, productive and spiritual practices, as well as that in this context the cedazo constitutes the central element of the economic activity and the cultural practices that transmit knowledge, values and cultural identity intergenerationally, highlighting that the handicraft production functions as a space in which the collective memory, the family and the community interact allowing to recognize a differentiating element of the Guangopolean identity traits in the face of cultural homogenization processes.