Fredrik Barth
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Norwegian social anthropologist (1928–2016)
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- 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 24,639x
- MrBayes 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models
· 2003 · cited 21,947x
- MRBAYES: Bayesian inference of phylogenetic trees
· 2001 · cited 18,299x
- Tissue-based map of the human proteome
· 2015 · cited 14,096x
- PGC-1α-responsive genes involved in oxidative phosphorylation are coordinately downregulated in human diabetes
· 2003 · cited 9,283x
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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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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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