The Istituto superiore regionale etnografico (ISRE; English: Sardinian Regional Institute of Ethnography) is an institution based in Nuoro (Sardinia), established in 1972 by the Regional Council of Sardinia. [1]
The institution was established concurrently with the centenary of the birth of the writer Grazia Deledda, 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 Grazia Deledda and the institute set up the Museo Deleddiano which was opened to the public in 1983. [2]
On July 20, 2023, the new "Museo della Ceramica" (Museum of Ceramics) was inaugurated within the premises of the historic Casa Chironi, [3] donated to the institute by the Municipality of Nuoro. [4]
ISRE currently manages a range of public and private facilities, libraries and collections. Among these:
Grazia Maria Cosima Damiana Deledda was an Italian writer who received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1926 "for her idealistically inspired writings which with plastic clarity picture the life on her native island [i.e. Sardinia] and with depth and sympathy deal with human problems in general". She was the first Italian woman to receive the prize, and only the second woman in general after Selma Lagerlöf was awarded hers in 1909.
Nuoro is a city and comune (municipality) in central-eastern Sardinia, Italy, situated on the slopes of Mount Ortobene. It is the capital of the province of Nuoro. With a population of 36,347 (2011), it is the sixth-largest city in Sardinia. Its frazione (borough) of Lollove is one of I Borghi più belli d'Italia.
Sardinian or Sard is a Romance language spoken by the Sardinians on the Western Mediterranean island of Sardinia.
Sardinia is the second-largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, after Sicily, and one of the twenty regions of Italy. It is located west of the Italian Peninsula, north of Tunisia and 16.45 km south of the French island of Corsica.
The Giara horse is a horse breed native to the island of Sardinia. It is one of the fifteen indigenous horse "breeds of limited distribution" recognised by the AIA, the Italian breeders' association. While of small size due to the hostile environment in which it lives, and sometimes called a "pony," it is considered a true horse.
Giulio Angioni was an Italian writer and anthropologist.
Filindeu is a rare type of pasta from the Barbagia region of Sardinia. It is made by pulling and folding semolina dough into very thin threads, which are laid in three layers on a tray called a fundu and dried to form textile-like sheets. The dried sheets are then broken into pieces and served in a mutton broth with pecorino sardo cheese. Filindeu is listed on the Ark of Taste.
Giovanni Lilliu, was a renowned archeologist, academician, publicist and politician and public figure and an expert of the Nuragic civilization. Largely due to his scientific and archeologic work in the Su Nuraxi di Barumini in Sardinia, Italy, the site was inscribed on the UNESCO list of World Heritage Sites in 1997.
Sardinian Literary Spring is a definition of the whole body of the literature produced in Sardinia from around the 1980s onwards.
Dolores Turchi is an Italian writer.
Sebastiano Satta was an Italian poet, writer, lawyer, and journalist.
The Sardinian Ethnographic Museum , is an ethnographic museum in Nuoro, Sardinia. Its goal is to display the traditional life of the island's people.
Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival (SIEFF) is an International Ethnographic film Festival based in Nuoro organized by the Istituto superiore regionale etnografico . The festival, born in 1982 in conjunction with the Bilan du Film Ethnographique by Jean Rouch, housed in the Musée de l'Homme in Paris, is the oldest ethnographic cinema festival in Europe. The event is held every two years and takes place in the Auditorium of Museo della vita e delle tradizioni popolari sarde in Nuoro. From 1982 to 2006 the exhibition was dedicated from time to time to a specific theme; since 2006 the Festival has abandoned the traditional monothematic characterization and has focused its program on a selection of recent films, guided by an ethno-anthropological perspective.
Coro di Nuoro is an Italian choir that performs popular and traditional Sardinian songs, including No potho reposare, Deus ti salvet Maria, the Miserere, and the Stabat Mater. Gian Paolo Mele is a former conductor of the choir.
The gosos or goccius (Sardinian) or goigs (Catalan) are a kind of devotional and paraliturgical songs sang pertaining to the folk tradition that are dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Jesus Christ, or a saint. They are typical of the Catalan Countries and Sardinia, and written in the Catalan, Sardinian or Spanish languages. They are sung during religious ceremonies, processions, pilgrimages and the votive festivals.
Cosimo Zene is an Italian anthropologist and Professor in the Study of Religions and World Philosophies at SOAS, University of London. He is known for his works on anthropology of religion.
Spazio Ilisso - Art Archives Museum is a Sardinian cultural promotion and enhancement center that integrates a museum with a permanent exhibition on 20th century and contemporary Sardinian sculpture, temporary exhibitions, digital archives and events.
The MAN - Art Museum of the province of Nuoro is a museum in Nuoro, Sardinia.
The Giorgio Asproni National Archaeological Museum is an archaeological museum in the historic centre of Nuoro, in Sardinia, near the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Snows. Established in 2002, it is located in a nineteenth-century building that belonged to Giorgio Asproni, a Sardinian politician and intellectual of that era.
Andreas Fridolin Weis Bentzon was a Danish ethnomusicologist and anthropologist.