(Bitti, February 22, 1939) is an Italian anthropologist, journalist, and writer.
In 1967 he graduated in Literature and Philosophy at the University of Cagliari with a thesis entitled “Antonio Fogazzaro and modernism”. In 1971 he graduated in Journalism with a thesis entitled “Montale giornalisti” at the Scuola Superiore delle Comunicazioni Sociali of the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. At the same institute, in 1973 he graduated in Radio and Television. In 1972 he enrolled in the Order of Journalists of Lombardy, in 1987 in the Order of Journalists of Sardinia.

A non-academic exponent of the Anthropological School of Cagliari, a student of Ernesto de Martino and Alberto Mario Cirese like his peers Giulio Angioni and Placido Cherchi, he is a scholar of traditional culture of inland Sardinia, which has undergone rapid transformation in recent decades, and is particularly concerned with questions of cultural and political identity. Between 1965 and 1987 he taught Literature at the technical industrial institute of Varese. Then, until 1997, he was a teacher at the “Pertini” technical institute in Cagliari. From 1973 to 1985 he collaborated with the Corriere della Sera.

In 1976 he wrote, with Gaspare Barbiellini Amidei, the essay Il re è un feticcio, in which he analyzed the relationship between the traditional world of pastoralism and the civilization of consumption in Sardinia. In 1980 he published Costa Smeralda, a contribution to the analysis of the relationship between tradition and innovation. In 1993 he won the Funtana Elighes Prize and in 1999 he was appointed director of L’Unione Sarda, a role he held until 2001.

He is president of the “Fondazione Sardinia” and has lived in Olbia for years.

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