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Fredrik Barth
Born
Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth
(1928-12-22)22 December 1928
Leipzig, Germany
Died
24 January 2016(2016-01-24) (aged 87)
Norway
Nationality
Norwegian
Alma mater
University of Chicago (MA) Cambridge University (PhD)
Spouse
Unni Wikan
Scientific career
Fields
Anthropology
Institutions
Boston University University of Bergen
Doctoral advisor
Edmund Leach
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Major theorists
E. Adamson Hoebel
Georges Balandier
F. G. Bailey
Fredrik Barth
Jeremy Boissevain
Robert L. Carneiro
Henri J. M. Claessen
Jean Comaroff
John Comaroff
Pierre Clastres
E. E. Evans-Pritchard
Wolfgang Fikentscher
Meyer Fortes
Morton Fried
Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges
Ernest Gellner
David Graeber
Lesley Gill
Ulf Hannerz
Thomas Blom Hansen
Ted C. Lewellen
Edmund Leach
Ralph Linton
Elizabeth Mertz
Sidney Mintz
Sally Falk Moore
Rodney Needham
Marshall Sahlins
James C. Scott
Elman Service
Aidan Southall
Jonathan Spencer
Bjorn Thomassen
Douglas R. White
Eric Wolf
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Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth (22 December 1928 – 24 January 2016) was a Norwegian social anthropologist who published several ethnographic books with a clear formalist view. He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, and previously held professorships at the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen (where he founded the Department of Social Anthropology), Emory University and Harvard University. He was appointed a government scholar in 1985.[1][2][3]
^Rosvold, Knut A. (9 August 2012). "Fredrik Barth Biography". Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
^Siverts, Henning (13 February 2009). "Fredrik Barth Extended Biography". Norsk Biografisk Leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
^Jenkins, Richard (2016). "Fredrik Barth: an ethnographer's ethnographer and a theorist's theorist: Fredrik Barth: an ethnographer's ethnographer and a theorist's theorist". Nations and Nationalism. 22 (3): 411–414. doi:10.1111/nana.12231.
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exact definition used. Many social scientists, such as anthropologists FredrikBarth and Eric Wolf, do not consider ethnic identity to be universal. They...
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this is not known for sure as the groups in Iraq might be ethnic Dom) FREDRIKBARTH (1961). NOMADS OF SOUTH PERSIA. p. 91. John Middleton (1995). Africa...
A plural society is defined by FredrikBarth as a society combining ethnic contrasts: the economic interdependence of those groups, and their ecological...
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is widely prevalent, particularly in western parts of Pakistan. Frederik Barth in his review of this system of social stratification in Pakistan suggested...
Anthropology & the Colonial Encounter. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities k. Barth, Fredrik; Gingrich, Andre; Parkin, Robert (2005). One Discipline, Four Ways:...
discrimination s Among Indian Muslims'" (PDF). SAS. Retrieved 5 January 2015. Barth, Fredrik (1962). E. R. Leach (ed.). The System Of Social Stratification In Swat...
Williams, Culture and Society, 1958 Alfred Métraux, Voodoo in Haiti, 1958 FredrikBarth, Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans, 1959 C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures...
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North-west Frontier Tribes. Superintendent of government printing. Barth, Fredrik (8 September 2020). Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans: Volume...
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Anglo-American perspective, which was a direct result of FredrikBarth. Norwegian anthropologist, FredrikBarth, is credited as the most influential contemporary...
cult Major theorists E. Adamson Hoebel Georges Balandier F. G. Bailey FredrikBarth Jeremy Boissevain Robert L. Carneiro Henri J. M. Claessen Jean Comaroff...
cult Major theorists E. Adamson Hoebel Georges Balandier F. G. Bailey FredrikBarth Jeremy Boissevain Robert L. Carneiro Henri J. M. Claessen Jean Comaroff...
cult Major theorists E. Adamson Hoebel Georges Balandier F. G. Bailey FredrikBarth Jeremy Boissevain Robert L. Carneiro Henri J. M. Claessen Jean Comaroff...
of Iran Ethnic minorities in Iran Nomads Of South Persia (1961) by FredrikBarth about the Basseri Tribe (read book) Nomads Of Persia (2014) by Ehsan...
peace studies; Nils Christie and Thomas Mathiesen, criminologists; FredrikBarth, a social anthropologist; Vilhelm Aubert, Harriet Holter and Erik Grønseth...
million members, who all trace their lineage back to one man called Tamim. Barth, F. (1973). "Descent and marriage reconsidered". In Jack Goody (ed.). The...
villages of up to 600 houses, mainly on the west bank of the Swat River. FredrikBarth estimated that they constituted about 2000 households in all in 1956...
Alghasi) A World of Insecurity (2010, ed. w/Ellen Bal and Oscar Salemink) FredrikBarth: An Intellectual Biography (2015) Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated...
cult Major theorists E. Adamson Hoebel Georges Balandier F. G. Bailey FredrikBarth Jeremy Boissevain Robert L. Carneiro Henri J. M. Claessen Jean Comaroff...
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