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Fredrik Barth: a Bibliography Compiled by Astrid Anderson and Frøydis Haugane Cover illustration and design: Inger Sandved Anfinsen [email protected] Skrifter fra Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo 9 Fredrik Barth: A Bibliography Compiled by Astrid Anderson and Frøydis Haugane This bibliography lists the publications of the renowned Norwegian anthropologist Fredrik Barth. Barth’s production covers publications about a wide range of places and topics, from ritual life among the Baktaman Fredrik Barth: A Bibliography of Papua New Guinea to economic spheres in Darfur, and is read by students and researchers all over the world. Several of his publications are Compiled by Astrid Anderson and Frøydis Haugane translated to various languages; for instance Icelandic, Portuguese and Turkish. The bibliography is organized by publication type and is sorted chronologically. It also includes selected interviews with and writings about Barth. ISSN 1504-9876 (trykt) Skrifter fra Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo ISSN 1890-3614 (online) ISBN 978-82-8037-025-9 (trykt) ISBN 978-82-8037-026-6 (online) 9 788280 370259 Fredrik Barth: A Bibliography Compiled by: Astrid Anderson and Frøydis Haugane © Universitetsbiblioteket i Oslo 2012 ISSN 1504–9876 (trykt) ISSN 1890–3614 (online) ISBN 978–82–8037-025-9 (trykt) ISBN 978–82–8037-026-6 (online) Ansvarlig redaktør: Bente R. Andreassen Redaksjon: Jan Engh (leder) Astrid Anderson Anne-Mette Vibe Trykk og innbinding: AiT Oslo AS Produsert i samarbeid med Akademika forlag Det må ikke kopieres fra denne boka i strid med åndsverk- loven eller med andre avtaler om kopiering inngått med Kopinor, interesseorgan for rettighetshavere til åndsverk. Innhold Introduction 5 Books 7 Book chapters 11 Journal Articles 21 Conference contributions, lectures, reports and working papers 25 Book reviews 29 Newspaper articles 31 Interviews with Fredrik Barth 33 Film and Television 35 Selected titles about Fredrik Barth 37 Sources 39 Introduction This bibliography presents the work of the prominent Norwegian social anthro- pologist Fredrik Barth. Barth’s full name is Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth, and he was born in Leipzig, Germany, December 22nd 1928. His parents were the geolo- gist Thomas Fredrik Weiby Barth and Randi Thomassen. Fredrik Barth started out his academic career with studies in paleoanthropology and archaeology at the University of Chicago where he received a MA degree in 1949. He continued his studies in England, first at London School of Economics and later at the University of Cambridge, where he received his PhD degree in social anthropology with the dissertation Political Organisation of Swat Pathans (1957). In Norway, he held a research scholarship at the University of Oslo from 1953 to 1958, and from the National Research Council from 1958 to 1961. In 1961, he became professor at the University of Bergen where he founded Department of Social Anthropology. Barth remained in Bergen until 1974, when he became professor of social anthropology and head of the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Oslo. In 1985, he was granted a state scholarship by the Norwegian government. Later, Barth has been a professor at Emory University (1989 to 1996), and at Boston University (1997 to 2008). He was awarded honorary doctorates at the University of Edinburgh in 1996 and at the University of Bergen in 2008. Barth has conducted numerous field works in various locations through his career, starting with Kurdistan in Iran in 1951, continuing to Pakistan, Sudan, New Guinea and Oman, and ending with Indonesia and Bhutan in the 1980’s and -90’s. Several of his many publications based on original ethnographic research have become classics, and his work about the Swat and Darfur has both recently been reactualized. Since Barth’s marriage to the anthropologist Unni Wikan in 1974, much of his field research has been carried out in cooperation with her. The bibliography is organized by publication type, and the publications are listed chronologically. Re-publications are listed below the original title, whereas translations are listed as separate entries. 7 Books 1953. Principles of Social Organization in Southern Kurdistan. Universitetets Etnografiske Museum. Bulletin .7 Oslo: Universitetets Etnografiske Museum. 1956. Indus and Swat Kohistan: an Ethnographic Survey. Studies honouring the centennial of Universitetets Etnografiske museum, Oslo 1857–1957, 2. Oslo: Universitetets Etnografiske Museum. 1957. Political Organisation of Swat Pathans. PhD thesis. Cambridge: University of Cambridge. 1959. Political Leadership among Swat Pathans. Monographs on Social Anthropology, 19. London: Athlone Press. 1961. Nomads of South Persia: the Basseri Tribe of the Khamseh Confederacy. Universitetets etnografiske museum. Bulletin, .8 Oslo: Universitetets etnografiske museum. Also published by − Universitetsforlaget, Oslo 1964 and 1980. − Waveland Press, Prospect Hights 1986. 1963. Editor. The Role of the Entrepreneur in Social Change in Northern Norway, Årbok for Universitetet i Bergen. Humanistisk serie, 1963:3. Bergen: Universitetsforlaget. Also published by − Universitetsforlaget, Oslo 1972. 1966. Models of Social Organization. Royal Anthropological Institute Occasional paper, 23. London: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. Also published in − Barth, Fredrik Selected Essays. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981. 1966. With Robert N. Pehrson. The Social Organization of the Marri Baluch by Robert N. Pehrson. Compiled and analyzed from his notes by Fredrik Barth. Viking Fund Publications in Anthropology, 43. Chicago: Aldine Publishers. 1967. Human Resources: Social and Cultural Features of The Jebel Marra Project Area. Bergen Occasional Papers in Social Anthropology, 1. Bergen: University of Bergen. 9 10 Fredrik Barth: A Bibliography Also published as − Bergen Studies in social Anthropology, 42. Bergen: University of Bergen, 1988. 1969. Editor. Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: the Social Organization of Culture Difference. Results of a symposium held at the University of Bergen, February 23–26, 1967. Bergen/Boston: Universitetsforlaget/Little Brown & co. Also published by − Waveland Press, Prospect Heights 1998. 1971. Socialantropologiska problem. Translated by S. Hedman. Verdandi- debatt, 60. Stockholm: Prisma. 1971. Editor. Mennesket som samfunnsborger: en uformell introduksjon til sosialantropologi. U-bøkene, 175. Bergen: Universitetsforlaget. 1975. Ritual and Knowledge among the Baktaman of New Guinea. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. 1976. Editor. Los grupos étnicos y sus fronteras. La organización social de las diferencias culturales. Translated by Sergio Lugo Rendón. México: Fondo de cultura económica.[Spanish translation of Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: the Social Organization of Culture Difference. Bergen: Universitetsforlaget, 1969] 1977. Editor. Maðurinn sem félagsvera: inngangur að mannfélagsfræði. Translated by J. S. Jónsson. Reykjavik: Iðunn. [Islandic translation of Mennesket som samfunnsborger: en uformell introduksjon til sosialantropologi. Bergen: Universitetsforlaget, 1971] 1978. Editor. Scale and Social Organization. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. 1980. Andres liv – og vårt eget. Oslo: Gyldendal. Also published by − Universitetsforlaget, Oslo 1991. 1980. Sosialantropologien som grunnvitenskap. Grundvidenskaben i dag, 21. København: Folkeuniversitetet. 1981. Selected Essays of Fredrik Barth. International Library of Anthropology. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Vol. 1: Process and Form in Social Life Vol. 2:Features of Person and Society in Swat: Collected Essays on Pathans. Books 11 1983. Sohar: Culture and Society in an Omani Town. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1985. With Miangul Jahanzeb. The last Wali of Swat: an Autobiography as Told to Fredrik Barth. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. Also published by − Columbia University Press, New York 1985 − White Orchid press, Bangkok 1995 1987. Cosmologies in the Making: a Generative Approach to Cultural Variation in Inner New Guinea. Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology, 64. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1993. Balinese Worlds. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press. 1994. Manifestasjon og prosess. Translated by Theo Barth. Det Blå bibliotek. Oslo: Universitetsforlaget. [Collection of essays translated from English to Norwegian.] 2000. With Tomko Lask. O guru, o iniciador: e outras variações antropológicas. Translated by J. C. Comerford. Coleção Typographos. Rio de Jainero: Contra Capa. [Portugese translation of a collection of essays.] 2001. Editor. Etnik gruplar ve sınırları: kültürel farklılığin toplumsal organizasyon.Translated by Ayhan Kaya and Seda Gürkan. İstanbul: Bağlam. [Turkish translation of Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: the Social Organization of Culture Difference. Bergen: Universitetsforlaget, 1969.] 2005. Vi mennesker: fra en antropologs reiser. Oslo: Gyldendal. Also published by − Pax, Oslo 2008 2005. With Andre Gingrich, Robert Parkin, and Sydel Silverman. One discipline, four ways: British, German, French, and American anthropology. The Halle lectures. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [Based on a series of lectures at the Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Halle, juni 2002.] 2008. Afghanistan og Taliban. Oslo: Pax. 2010. Afghanistan og Taleban. Translated by S. Piper. Højbjerg: Hovedland. [Danish translation of Afghanistan og Taliban. Oslo: Pax, 2008.] Book chapters 1960. The system of social stratification in Swat, North Pakistan. In Aspects of Caste in South India, Ceylon and North-West Pakistan, edited by E. R. Leach, 113–146. Cambridge Papers in Social Anthropology. Cambridge:
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