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Dialoghi Nulesi - Storia, Memoria, identita' di Nule (Sardegna) nell'antropologia di Andreas F. W. Bentzon

The publication of Dialoghi Nulesi involved 14 years of work. Archival work began in 1995 when Zene became acquainted with archival/unpublished material of the ‘Fondo Bentzon’ (typewritten cards, magnetic tapes, manuscripts, photos, diagrams/maps) at ISRE, Sardinia. Between 2005-6 he was commissioned to undertake the restructuring of the material. In the same year he visited the Folkmindesamling (Copenhagen) adding new primary sources (manuscripts in Danish and tapes in Sardinian) to existing data and was involved in sorting complex copyright issues. Between 2005-8 he conducted extensive periods of fieldwork in Nule to verify written sources with informants before the manuscript was published.

Dialoghi Nulesi is a historical-anthropological analysis (through narrativity, memory and orality studies) of the fieldwork-notes on Nule (1965-1971) left by the late Andreas Fridolin Bentzon (1936-1971). Following Bentzon’s intuition, Zene reassesses Nule’s past as propelled towards the future, considering aspects of solidarity and conflict within the community and encouraging informants to express their views through life-stories and autobiographies. Bentzon’s initial research into the ethnomusicology of the Canto a Tenore, was to become an “anthropology in the plural.” Zene - himself from Nule - extends this felicitous transition to involve his present-day co-villagers, so as to keep the ‘dialogues’ alive.