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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.
Learn about the life and work of Frederik Barth, a renowned scholar of economic anthropology, ethnicity and ethnic identity. Explore his books, articles, awards and legacy in the field of anthropology.
Fredrik Barth is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century anthropology. This intellectual history traces the development of Barth’s ideas and explores t...
A tribute to the late anthropologist Fredrik Barth, who made groundbreaking contributions to the study of ethnicity, cosmology, and social organization. The obituary reviews his life, career, and main works, from his fieldwork in Iraqi Kurdistan to Bali.
Known chiefly for his theory of ethnicity, Fredrik Barth has made several important contributions to anthropology. Beginning as a political anthropologist concerned with the relationship between individual strategies and social form, he reformulated segmentary lineage theory following fieldwork in Swat.
- Thomas Hylland Eriksen
- 2018
Fredrik Barth (1928-2016) was one of the handful of leaders of world anthropology from his youth in the 1950s until early in this century. His name was not as widely known or frequently mentioned as Clifford Geertz or Lévi-Strauss, but for many anthropologists in the Anglophone world his numerous and varied works were an important stimulus and ...
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This article argues that Fredrik Barth views ethnic structures both in primordialist and constructivist terms. Primordialist, because ethnicities are persistent structures, despite trans-border movement; and constructivist, because cultures' boundaries can be crossed, with an open-ended scenario.
