Fredrik Barth
Norwegian social anthropologist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth (22 December 1928 ā 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.[1][2] He started the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen.
Barth died in Oslo, Norway on 24 January 2016 at the age of 87.