23 Facts About Fredrik Barth

Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth was a Norwegian social anthropologist who published several ethnographic books with a clear formalist view.

Fredrik Barth was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, and previously held professorships at the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen, Emory University and Harvard University.

Fredrik Barth developed an interest in evolution and human origins.

Fredrik Barth earned an MA in paleoanthropology and archaeology in 1949.

Fredrik Barth stayed on after the expedition was over, and conducted ethnographic population studies with the Kurdish population.

Fredrik Barth spent a year at the London School of Economics writing up this data, and in 1953 published his first book, Principles of Social Organization in Southern Kurdistan.

Fredrik Barth had originally planned to submit the manuscript of his Principles of Social Organization as his Ph.

Fredrik Barth continued graduate study, moving to Cambridge, England to study with Edmund Leach, whom he had previously worked with at the LSE.

In 1961, Fredrik Barth was invited to the University of Bergen to create an anthropology department and serve as the chair.

In 1974 Fredrik Barth moved to Oslo, where he became professor of social anthropology and the head of the city's Museum of Cultural History.

Marxism and interpretive approaches were becoming more central, while Fredrik Barth's focus on strategy and choice was being taken up by economics and related disciplines.

Fredrik Barth shifted to studying meaning and ritual as developed in ethnic groups, and conducted research in Papua New Guinea, where he conducted fieldwork with the Baktaman.

Fredrik Barth published several works from these studies, namely the Ritual and Knowledge among the Baktaman of New Guinea.

Fredrik Barth continued studies in the Middle East, conducting fieldwork in Oman with his wife Unni Wikan.

Fredrik Barth received a state scholarship from the Norwegian government in 1985.

Fredrik Barth developed an interest in the anthropology of knowledge at around this time, an interest which he explored in his book Balinese Worlds.

Fredrik Barth was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

Fredrik Barth died in Norway on 24 January 2016 at the age of 87.

Fredrik Barth was well known among anthropologists for his Transactionalism analysis of political processes in the Swat Valley of northern Pakistan, and his study of micro-economic processes and entrepreneurship in the area of Darfur in Sudan.

Fredrik Barth has been an influential scholar on the subject of ethnicity.

Fredrik Barth's view was that such groups were not discontinuous cultural isolates, or logical a prioris to which people naturally belong.

Fredrik Barth parted with anthropological notions of cultures as bounded entities, and ethnicity as primordial bonds.

Fredrik Barth focused on the interface and interaction between groups that gave rise to identities.