Fredrik Barth
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Norwegian social anthropologist (1928–2016)
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Fredrik Barth appears in Vinony's American Academy of Arts & Sciences collection — one of 9,861 entries.
Within Vinony's link graph, Fredrik Barth is referenced by 111 other articles, and connects out to ethnography, ethnicity and Sudan.
It is catalogued under topics including 1928 births, 2016 deaths and Academic staff of the University of Bergen.
Its subject is documented across 28 Wikipedia language editions.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- France
Discography
- Essence of Giraffe2002
- I Got You in My Dream2003
- Under the Trampoline2006
- Cuchillo2008
- Cuchillo Revisited2008
- Film Music, Vol. 12013
- Cold Smoke2014
- Like Cavemen Do2025
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space
· 2012 · cited 24,111x
- MrBayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models
· 2003 · cited 21,819x
- MRBAYES: Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees
· 2001 · cited 18,206x
- Tissue-based map of the human proteome
· 2015 · cited 13,779x
- PGC-1α-responsive genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation are coordinately downregulated in human diabetes
· 2003 · cited 9,155x
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Key facts
- Born
- Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth , ( 1928-12-22 ) 22 December 1928, Leipzig , Germany
- Died
- 24 January 2016 (2016-01-24) (aged 87), Norway
- Alma mater
- University of Chicago ( MA ), Cambridge University ( PhD )
- Spouse
- Unni Wikan
- Fields
- Anthropology
- Institutions
- Boston University , University of Bergen
- Doctoral advisor
- Edmund Leach
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Wikidata facts
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- Fredrik Barth.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1928-12-22
- date of death
- 2016-01-24
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Encyclopedic overview
Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth (22 December 1928 – 24 January 2016) was a Norwegian social anthropologist who published several ethnographic books with a clear formalist view. He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University, and previously held professorships at the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen (where he founded the Department of Social Anthropology), Emory University and Harvard University. He was appointed a government scholar in 1985.
Biography and major works
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