Fredrik Barth - life and publications

Question 1

“On Study of Social Change” - give name of author and year of publication.

Answer 1

Fredrik Barth (1967)

Question 2

“Overview: Sixty Years in Anthropology” - give name of author and year of publication.

Answer 2

Fredrik Barth (2007)

Question 3

Barth (1990)

Answer 3

The Guru and the Conjurer

Question 3

Fredrik Barth (1966)

Answer 3

Models of Social Organization

Question 4

“The Guru and the Conjurer” - give name of author and year of publication.

Answer 4

Barth (1990)

Question 5

Fredrik Barth (2002)

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An Anthropology of Knowledge

Question 5

Ethnic Groups and Boundaries

Answer 5

Barth (1969)

Question 7

Barth and Street (1992)

Answer 7

Method in Our Critique of Anthropology

Question 7

Fredrik Barth (1987)

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Cosmologies in the Making - a generative approach to cultural variation in inner New Guinea

Question 8

Fredrik Barth (1994)

Answer 8

Manifestasjon og prosess

Question 8

An Anthropology of Knowledge

Answer 8

Fredrik Barth (2002)

Question 8

Method in Our Critique of Anthropology

Answer 8

Barth and Street (1992)

Question 9

Cosmologies in the Making - a generative approach to cultural variation in inner New Guinea

Answer 9

Fredrik Barth (1987)

Question 10

Other Knowledge and Other Ways of Knowing

Answer 10

Fredrik Barth (1995)

Question 11

Manifestasjon og prosess

Answer 11

Fredrik Barth (1994)

Question 13

Fredrik Barth (1959)

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Political Leadership among Swat Pathans

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Fredrik Barth (1967)

Answer 15

On Study of Social Change

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Fredrik Barth (1975)

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Ritual and Knowledge among the Baktaman of New Guinea

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Fredrik Barth (1995)

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Other Knowledge and Other Ways of Knowing

Question 19

Political Leadership among Swat Pathans

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Fredrik Barth (1959)

Question 20

Ritual and Knowledge among the Baktaman of New Guinea

Answer 20

Fredrik Barth (1975)

Question 22

Barth (1969)

Answer 22

Question 23

Fredrik Barth (2007)

Answer 23

Overview: Sixty Years in Anthropology

Question 24

Models of Social Organization

Answer 24

Fredrik Barth (1966)

Question 25

Fredrik Barth (1993)

Answer 25

Balinese Worlds

Question 26

Balinese Worlds

Answer 26

Fredrik Barth (1993)

Question 27

Nomads of South Persia:

the Basseri tribe of the Khamseh confederacy

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Fredrik Barth (1961)

Question 28

Fredrik Barth (1961)

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Nomads of South Persia:

the Basseri tribe of the Khamseh confederacy

Question 29

Fredrik Barth (1983)

Answer 29

Sohar, culture and society in an Omani town

Question 30

Sohar, culture and society in an Omani town

Answer 30

Fredrik Barth (1983)

Question 31

Når og hvor begynte Fredrik Barth å studere antropologi?

Answer 31

University of Chicago, 1946.

Question 32

Hvordan møtte Fredrik Barth Edmund Leach?

Answer 32

• Like many of his Chicago cohort, he admired the work of contemporary British social anthropologists, in his case Raymond Firth in particular,…
• He got Norwegian money to spend a year at the LSE while writing up his materials from Kurdistan.
• There he met the still-unknown Edmund Leach and was captivated.

Question 33

Barth (1953)

Answer 33

Principles of Social Organization in Southern Kurdistan

Question 34

Når og hvor ble Fredrik Barth født?

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I Leipzig 22. desember 1928 (altså på dagen 50 år før Thea).

Question 35

When did Barth work in Bergen?

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During the years 1961-1972

Question 36

Who remarked that one could ‘count Norwegian anthropologists on a mutilated left hand’?

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Barth’s British colleague and sholar of Chinese anthropology Maurice Freedman (1920-1975)

Question 37

Where did Barth teach in 1963-1964?

Answer 37

At the University of Khartoum.

Question 38

How did Barth’s publication ‘Models of social organization’ come about?

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• In the winter of ‘63, Raymond Firth invited Barth to give a series of lecture at the LSE.
• This gave Barth an opportunity to formulate the theoretical foundations for his work on strategy and choice.
• The series was later publised as ‘Models…’ (1966).

Question 39

Planning his symposium in 1967, what conventional anthropological convention did Barth assume that he and his Scandinavian colleagues could modify?

Answer 39

TRIBE = CULTURE = SOCIETY