The Istituto superiore regionale etnografico (ISRE; English: ''Sardinian Regional Institute of Ethnography'') is an institution based in

Nuoro Nuoro ( or less correctly ; sc, Nùgoro ) is a city and ''comune'' (municipality) in central-eastern Sardinia, Italy, situated on the slopes of the Monte Ortobene. It is the capital of the province of Nuoro. With a population of 36,347 (2011), ...

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Sardinia Sardinia ( ; it, Sardegna, label=Italian, Corsican and Tabarchino ; sc, Sardigna , sdc, Sardhigna; french: Sardaigne; sdn, Saldigna; ca, Sardenya, label=Algherese and Catalan) is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after ...

), established in 1972 by the Regional Council of Sardinia.

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The institution was established concurrently with the centenary of the birth of the writer

Grazia Deledda Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda (; 27 September 1871 – 15 August 1936), also known in Sardinian language as Gràssia or Gràtzia Deledda (), was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically ...

, to promote the 'study and documentation of the social and cultural life of Sardinia in its traditional manifestations and its transformations'', as set out in article 1 of the by-laws. The newborn Institute was added to the pre-existing "Museo del costume di Nuoro" , which was renamed " Museo della vita e delle tradizioni popolari sarde" (Museum of Sardinian Folk Life and Traditions). In 1978 the municipality of Nuoro ceded to ISRE the house of

and the institute set up the

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which was opened to the public in 1983.

Functions and activities

ISRE currently manages a range of public and private facilities, libraries and collections. Among these: *the demo-ethno-anthropological library and the editorial activities and the management of the Museo deleddiano in Nuoro, including the Deledda Fund *The Luigi Cocco Collection located inside the

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Cagliari Cagliari (, also , , ; sc, Casteddu ; lat, Caralis) is an Italian municipality and the capital of the island of Sardinia, an autonomous region of Italy. Cagliari's Sardinian name ''Casteddu'' means ''castle''. It has about 155,000 inhabitant ...

. *The Cineteca and the Photographic Archive of

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that consists of films made and / or produced by the Institute itself, containing studies and documentation related to the popular life of Sardinia and works that are sent to the

Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival ''Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival'' (SIEFF) is an International Ethnographic film Festival based in Nuoro (Sardinia - Italy) organized by the Istituto superiore regionale etnografico (the ''Sardinian Regional Institute of Ethnogr ...

, docufilm coming from Worldwide. *The photo library that collects over 40,000 images on Sardinia, among the main collections are the funds Giuseppe Costa, Piero Pirari, Giulio Pili,

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, Pablo Volta. These materials are a considerable part of the

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Sardegna Digital Library *The library specialized in the collection of demo-ethno-anthropological documentation. The library is currently about 24,000 titles for monographic publications and over 1,000 titles related to magazines. The library is part of the circuit of the Sardinian Regional System SBN (National Library Service); therefore, the

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catalog of a large part of the book heritage is available on the internet.Biblioteca ISRE on line
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Ethnographic festivals

*The

(SIEFF), born in 1982, a biennial international festival on the international productions of ethnographic cinema, which is hosted at the Auditorium of the Ethnographic Museum. The films come from all over the world and the prizes are awarded by an international jury. *The Festival Biennale Italiano dell’Etnografia (ETNU) (Italian Biennial Festival of Ethnography), established in 2007, which hosts exhibitions of

ethnography Ethnography (from Greek ''ethnos'' "folk, people, nation" and ''grapho'' "I write") is a branch of anthropology and the systematic study of individual cultures. Ethnography explores cultural phenomena from the point of view of the subject o ...

, craft and design, conferences, workshops, concerts, film screenings, book presentations and more.

References

External links

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