Fredrik Barth#
Sadly, this member passed away. | |
Membership Number: | 143 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | THE HUMAN MIND AND ITS COMPLEXITY |
Elected: | 1989 |
Main Country of Residence: | NORWAY |
Homepage(s): | http://www.bu.edu/anthrop/people/emeritus/f-barth |
Fredrik Barth passed away January 24, 2016.
Positions Held
- Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University
- Professorship at the University of Oslo
- Professorship at the University of Bergen (where he founded the Department of Social Anthropology)
- Professorship at Emory University
- Professorship atHarvard University
Fields of Scholarship
- Anthropology
Honours and Awards
- Member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters
- Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1997 Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- Lifetime Achievement Award, The Commission on Nomadic Peoples is part of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES)