Istituto superiore regionale etnografico

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Functions and activities

• 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 Cittadella dei Musei in Cagliari.
• The Cineteca and the Photographic Archive of visual anthropology 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, 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, Wolfgang Suschitzky, Jean Dieuzaide, Pablo Volta. These materials are a considerable part of the digital library 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 ; therefore, the OPAC catalog of a large part of the book heritage is available on the internet.

  Ethnographic festivals

• The Sardinia International Ethnographic Film Festival, 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 , established in 2007, which hosts exhibitions of ethnography, craft and design, conferences, workshops, concerts, film screenings, book presentations and more.