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.
Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and former President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). He is the author of numerous classics of anthropology, including Small Places, Large Issues, Ethnicity and Nationalism and What is Anthropology?
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
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