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Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962 – 2024) was Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and former President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). He was among the most highly cited anthropologists of his generation, and his classic and accessible textbook Small Places, Large Issues remains a cornerstone in anthropology courses. His later books, including Overheating, tackled the important issue of climate change within the discipline.'Fredrik Barth was an extraordinary ethnographer who did path-breaking fieldwork in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Indonesia and New Guinea. This book tells Barth's story with sympathy, insight and great verve'
- Adam Kuper, Centennial Professor, London School of Economics,
'A timely and essential guide ... Eriksen is probably the person best situated to write this admirable intellectual biography and accomplishes the task with elegance and balance'
- American Anthropologist,
'The book is rich with discussions of Barth’s work, thought, and activities on the world stage of anthropology. Thomas Hylland Eriksen has given us a fine intellectual and professional portrait of a first-class anthropologist and a credit to the breed'
- History of Anthropology Newsletter,
Exploring his six decade career, it follows Barth from early ecological studies in Pakistan, to political studies in Iran, to groundbreaking fieldwork in Norway, New Guinea, Bali and Bhutan. Eriksen argues that Barth's voracious appetite for fieldwork holds the key to understanding his remarkable intellectual development and the insights it produced. The book raises many of the same questions that emerge from Barth's own work - of unity and diversity, of culture and relativism, of art and science.
Series Preface
Preface
Part I: A Man of Action
1. Watching and Wandering
2. The Power and the Glory
3. Nomadic Freedom
4. Entrepreneurship
5. The Global Theorist
6. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries
Part II: An Anthropology of Knowledge
7. Baktaman Vibrations
8. A New Kind of Complexity
9. Turbulent Times
10. Cultural Complexity
11. The Guru and the Conjurer
12. Between Art and Science
Notes
List of Works by Fredrik Barth
List of Other References
Index