Fredrik Barth

Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth (22 December 1928 – 24 January 2016) was a Norwegian social anthropologist.  He published several ethnographic books with a clear formalistic view. He was born in Leipzig.

He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University. He had previously been a professor at the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen, Emory University and Harvard University. He started the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen.

He was elected a member of the Academia Europaea in 1989.

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

References

Other websites
 Los grupos étnicos y sus fronteras. Introducción  
 Los Pathanes: su identidad y conservación  
 Barth, Fredrik (born 1928) - Entry in the AnthroBase Online Dictionary of Anthropology
 video interview of Fredrik Barth from Alan Macfarlane's FILMS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND OTHER "ANCESTORS" 
 "Overview: Sixty Years in Anthropology" by Fredrik Barth
 Bergen Open Research Archive

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