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Fredrik Barth

Fredrik Barth
Fredrik Barth, German-Norwegian anthropologist and academic (d. 2016)

Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth 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, Emory University and Harvard University. He was appointed a government scholar in 1985.

22 December 1928

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