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Thomas Hylland Eriksen (born 1962) is professor of social anthropology
Social anthropology

Social anthropology is the branch of anthropology that studies how currently living human beings behave in social groups. Practitioners of social anthropology investigate, often through long term, intensive Fieldwork , the social organization of a particular people: Convention , economics and Politics organization, law and conflict resolutio...
 at the University of Oslo
University of Oslo

The University of Oslo is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation#Oldest Universities by Region .28post 1500.29, largest and most prestigious university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo....
. He has done field work in Trinidad
Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and islands of Trinidad and Tobago which make up the country of Trinidad and Tobago....
 and Mauritius
Mauritius

Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius, , is an island nation off the coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 900 kilometres east of Madagascar....
. His fields of research include identity, nationalism and ethnicity. Eriksen finished his dr. polit.-degree in 1991, and was made professor in 1995, at the age of 33. In the years 1993-2001 he was editor of the journal Samtiden.

A considerable portion of Eriksen's work has focused on popularizing social anthropology and conveying basic cultural relativism in the Norwegian public debate.






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Thomas Hylland Eriksen (born 1962) is professor of social anthropology
Social anthropology

Social anthropology is the branch of anthropology that studies how currently living human beings behave in social groups. Practitioners of social anthropology investigate, often through long term, intensive Fieldwork , the social organization of a particular people: Convention , economics and Politics organization, law and conflict resolutio...
 at the University of Oslo
University of Oslo

The University of Oslo is the List of oldest universities in continuous operation#Oldest Universities by Region .28post 1500.29, largest and most prestigious university in Norway, situated in the Norwegian capital of Oslo....
. He has done field work in Trinidad
Trinidad

Trinidad is the larger and more populous of the two major islands and islands of Trinidad and Tobago which make up the country of Trinidad and Tobago....
 and Mauritius
Mauritius

Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius, , is an island nation off the coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 900 kilometres east of Madagascar....
. His fields of research include identity, nationalism and ethnicity. Eriksen finished his dr. polit.-degree in 1991, and was made professor in 1995, at the age of 33. In the years 1993-2001 he was editor of the journal Samtiden.

A considerable portion of Eriksen's work has focused on popularizing social anthropology and conveying basic cultural relativism in the Norwegian public debate. He has written the basic textbook used in the introductory courses in social anthropology at Norwegian universities. The book, "Small Places -- Large Issues" in English, is also used in introductory courses in many other countries, and has been widely translated. Eriksen is a frequent contributor of newspaper pieces in Scandinavia and is a highly popular public speaker.

Eriksen has been a minor political candidate for the Norwegian Liberal Party
Venstre (Norway)

The Liberal Party of Norway is a Social liberalism political party in Norway. It is the oldest political party in the country, founded in 1884....
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Selected works in English

  • Ethnicity And Nationalism (1993/2002)
  • Small Places -- Large Issues (1995/2001)
  • A History Of Anthropology (2001)
  • Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age (2001)
  • Globalisation: Studies in Anthropology (2003)
  • What Is Anthropology? (2004)
  • Engaging Anthropology (2006)


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