Istituto Superiore Regionale Etnografico International Summer School in Anthropology and Ethnography (ISSAE) First edition, 23-28 giugno 2025 – Gavoi
Traduci in Italiano The International Summer School in Anthropology and Ethnography (ISSAE) is conceived with an itinerant character.
The International Summer School in Anthropology and Ethnography (ISSAE) is conceived with an itinerant character. Each year a different locality and/or area of Sardinia will be chosen, favoring municipalities and towns in which ethnographic museums, ecomuseums and other activities related to the study, conservation and valorisation of cultural heritage, in particular anthropological heritage are established or are in progress.
For each edition the ISSAE will offer a programme focusing on theoretical, epistemological and methodological issues in sociocultural anthropology. Scholars and experts (Italian and foreign) will give keynote lectures on themes and issues particularly relevant to the theory and practice of ethnography (fieldwork). In addition to keynote lectures and other seminars and meetings, the training activity includes group work sessions based on experiences, observations, and ethnographic practices on specific research topics.
23-28 June 2025 – Gavoi
LIVING SUSTAINABILITY AND HERITAGE
The first edition of the ISSAE school took place in Gavoi, Nuoro, a municipality rich in history in the Barbagia of Ollolai, well known for its local artisan and commercial traditions, for sheep breeding and the production of the ‘Fiore Sardo dei pastori’, a raw milk sheep’s cheese (Slow Food Presidium), and more recently also for hosting an international literary festival now in its 17th edition (L’Isola delle Storie), conceived among others by Giulio Angioni, a famous Sardinian writer and anthropologist.
The training activities of the first edition of the ISSAE Summer School focused on themes, issues and approaches of the anthropology and ethnography of heritage, landscape, environment and typical local productions; of social transformation processes linked to tourism development and new forms of entrepreneurship; of local development policies in the framework of the global policies of ‘sustainable development’.
Eligibility
ISSAE is open to MA students, postgraduate students, PhD candidates in the field of sociocultural anthropology and other areas of the humanities, as well as staff working in the field of humanities, social sciences, and cultural activities such as the protection, preservation and management of cultural heritage.