This text invites us to perform a reflective exercise, while it proposes a critical view on the use of concepts unveiled in different types of expressions, practices and techniques, circumscribed in specific social geographies and cultures. A review of the notions of crafts, popular art and trades is carried out, highlighting their enunciating capacity throughout history, recognizing them - in some cases - as cover-ups of forms of cultural domination that creep from European colonization in our territories.