The National Museum of Popular Arts and Traditions in Rome, in a monumental but also a little cemetery: the EUR . Twenty-two years I began to frequent the place that still believe is the Museum of Anthropology richest and most interesting in Italy. I must admit that the exposure of the seventies was still fascinating as it retains the traces of the great exhibition of Italian Entnografia 1911. Echoes were vague but still present. Treasures for a young student, were the archives: pictures, sound recordings, objects ... and I was free to wallow in that kind of bazaar of Italian culture. I had never seen anything like it. My anthropology professor at the University of Salerno, Annabella Rossi, director of the museum, gave me an exciting opportunity. I worked in the cataloging of objects, sound recordings, photographs, but then you did not think of building up a few careers. It was part of the job and I needed to know and analyze objects and repositories of intangible property, such as being abused today. Then I started the research for the continuation of Rossi on the rituals of the South This imprinting resulted in all my subsequent choices: try to include at least some components of the cultures of the places where I lived and I was born, through the use of technical means of records a trace of this work in public institutions; skills for the creation of museums and documentation centers dedicated to local cultures, continue to carry out research activities outside of academia and institutions.
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