Fredrik Barth

Fredrik Barth
Born
Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth

(1928-12-22)22 December 1928
Died24 January 2016(2016-01-24) (aged 87)
Norway
NationalityNorwegian
Alma materUniversity of Chicago (MA)
Cambridge University (PhD)
SpouseUnni Wikan
Scientific career
FieldsAnthropology
InstitutionsBoston University
University of Bergen
Doctoral advisorEdmund Leach

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]

  1. ^ Rosvold, Knut A. (9 August 2012). "Fredrik Barth Biography". Store Norske Leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  2. ^ Siverts, Henning (13 February 2009). "Fredrik Barth Extended Biography". Norsk Biografisk Leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 27 October 2013.
  3. ^ 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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