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Fredrik Barth is one of the towering figures of twentieth-century anthropology. In a career spanning six decades, Barth first made his mark with a study of ecological relationships among ethnic groups in Swat (Pakistan), followed by studies of political and economic systems in Pakistan and Iran, emphasising the role of agency and social process rather than structure and function. He later carried out fieldwork in western Norway, New Guinea, Oman, Bali and Bhutan, and his voracious appetite for fieldwork as a means to intellectual development is the key to understanding his thought and contributions to anthropology. This intellectual history traces the development of Barths ideas and explores the substance of his contributions. In so doing, it is also makes a major contribution to the history of anthropology, raising questions to do with the unity and diversity of humanity, cultural relativism and anthropology as a hybrid activity between art and science, seen through the lens of one of its most distinguished practitioners. Written in a wonderfully accessible style, Thomas Hylland Eriksens biographical study reveals the magic of ethnography to professional anthropologists and non-practitioners alike.--

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Fredrik Barth Anthropology Culture and Society Series Editors Professor - photo 1
Fredrik Barth
Anthropology, Culture and Society
Series Editors:
Professor Vered Amit, Concordia University
and
Professor Christina Garsten, Stockholm University
Recent titles:
Becoming Arab in London:
Performativity and the
Undoing of Identity

RAMY M. K. ALY
Community, Cosmopolitanism
and the Problem of Human
Commonality

VERED AMIT AND
NIGEL RAPPORT
Home Spaces, Street Styles:
Contesting Power and Identity
in a South African City

LESLIE J. BANK
In Foreign Fields:
The Politics and Experiences of
Transnational Sport Migration

THOMAS F. CARTER
Dream Zones:
Anticipating Capitalism and
Development in India

JAMIE CROSS
A World of Insecurity:
Anthropological Perspectives
on Human Security

EDITED BY
THOMAS ERIKSEN,
ELLEN BAL AND
OSCAR SALEMINK
A History of Anthropology
Second Edition

THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN
AND FINN SIVERT NIELSEN
Ethnicity and Nationalism:
Anthropological Perspectives
Third Edition

THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN
Small Places, Large Issues:
An Introduction to Social and
Cultural Anthropology
Third Edition

THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN
Discordant Development:
Global Capitalism and the Struggle
for Connection in Bangladesh

KATY GARDNER
Anthropology and Development:
Challenges for the Twenty-first
Century

KATY GARDNER
AND DAVID LEWIS
Organisational Anthropology:
Doing Ethnography in and
Among Complex Organisations

EDITED BY
CHRISTINA GARSTEN
AND ANETTE NYQVIST
Border Watch:
Cultures of Immigration,
Detention and Control

ALEXANDRA HALL
Anthropologys World:
Life in a Twenty-First
Century Discipline

ULF HANNERZ
Humans and Other Animals:
Cross-cultural Perspectives on
HumanAnimal Interactions

SAMANTHA HURN
Flip-Flop:
A Journey Through
Globalisations Backroads

CAROLINE KNOWLES
The Anthropology of Security:
Perspectives from the Frontline
of Policing, Counter-Terrorism
and Border Control

EDITED BY MARK MAGUIRE,
CATARINA FROIS
AND NILS ZURAWSKI
The Gloss of Harmony:
The Politics of Policy Making
in Multilateral Organisations

EDITED BY BIRGIT MLLER
Contesting Publics:
Feminism, Activism, Ethnography

LYNNE PHILLIPS
AND SALLY COLE
Food For Change:
The Politics and Values
of Social Movements

JEFF PRATT AND
PETER LUETCHFORD
Checkpoint, Temple, Church
and Mosque:
A Collaborative Ethnography
of War and Peace

JONATHAN SPENCER,
JONATHAN GOODHAND,
SHAHUL HASBULLAH,
BART KLEM, BENEDIKT KORF
AND KALINGA TUDOR SILVA
Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
Second Edition

PETER WADE
Race and Sex in Latin America
PETER WADE
The Capability of Places:
Methods for Modelling Community
Response to Intrusion and Change

SANDRA WALLMAN
The Making of an African
Working Class:
Politics, Law and Cultural Protest
in the Manual Workers Union
of Botswana

PNINA WERBNER
Fredrik Barth
An Intellectual Biography
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
First published in Norwegian 2013 First English language edition published - photo 2
First published in Norwegian 2013.
First English language edition published 2015 by Pluto Press
345 Archway Road, London N6 5AA
www.plutobooks.com
Copyright Universitetsforlaget 2013
English translation Thomas Hylland Eriksen 2015
The right of Thomas Hylland Eriksen to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978 0 7453 3536 0 Hardback
ISBN 978 0 7453 3535 3 Paperback
ISBN 978 1 7837 1305 9 PDF eBook
ISBN 978 1 7837 1307 3 Kindle eBook
ISBN 978 1 7837 1306 6 EPUB eBook
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Series Preface
Anthropology is a discipline based upon in-depth ethnographic works that deal with wider theoretical issues in the context of particular, local conditions to paraphrase an important volume from the series: large issues explored in small places. This series has a particular mission: to publish work that moves away from an old-style descriptive ethnography that is strongly area-studies oriented, and offer genuine theoretical arguments that are of interest to a much wider readership, but which are nevertheless located and grounded in solid ethnographic research. If anthropology is to argue itself a place in the contemporary intellectual world, then it must surely be through such research.
We start from the question: What can this ethnographic material tell us about the bigger theoretical issues that concern the social sciences? rather than What can these theoretical ideas tell us about the ethnographic context? Put this way round, such work becomes about large issues, set in a (relatively) small place, rather than detailed description of a small place for its own sake. As Clifford Geertz once said, Anthropologists dont study villages; they study in villages.
By place, we mean not only geographical locale, but also other types of place within political, economic, religious or other social systems. We therefore publish work based on ethnography within political and religious movements, occupational or class groups, among youth, development agencies, and nationalist movements; but also work that is more thematically based on kinship, landscape, the state, violence, corruption, the self. The series publishes four kinds of volume: ethnographic monographs; comparative texts; edited collections; and shorter, polemical essays.
We publish work from all traditions of anthropology, and all parts of the world, which combines theoretical debate with empirical evidence to demonstrate anthropologys unique position in contemporary scholarship and the contemporary world.
Professor Vered Amit
Professor Christina Garsten
Preface
I was meant to get to Iraq on my own. There, [Professor Robert] Braidwood would feed me and equip me with the gear I needed, as well as giving me a bit of money that I could use to continue doing fieldwork on my own. Braathens S.A.F.E. flew to Hong Kong once a week, and I thought that I might have a chance there. So I went to Mr Braathen and said, Would you have room for a young Norwegian researcher who is going out with an American expedition? He said yes, he was keen on supporting Norwegian research, so he could give me a discount. He usually gave a 25 per cent reduction on the ticket would that be sufficient? No, I had to confess that I hadnt even checked the price. So he told me and asked whether it would help. I had to admit that it did not help sufficiently and he then gave me a fifty per cent discount. And sent me off.
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