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Fredrik Barth | |
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| Born | Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth 22 December 1928 |
| Died | 24 January 2016 (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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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.