Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth (22 December 1928 – 24 January 2016) was a Norwegian social anthropologist. He published several ethnographic books with a clear formalistic view. He was born in Leipzig.
He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University. He had previously been a professor at the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen, Emory University and Harvard University. He started the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen.
Barth died in Oslo, Norway on 24 January 2016 at the age of 87.
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Los grupos étnicos y sus fronteras. Introducción
Los Pathanes: su identidad y conservación
Barth, Fredrik (born 1928) - Entry in the AnthroBase Online Dictionary of Anthropology video interview of Fredrik Barth from Alan Macfarlane's FILMS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND OTHER "ANCESTORS" "Overview: Sixty Years in Anthropology" by Fredrik Barth Bergen Open Research Archive
1928 births
2016 deaths
Academics of the University of Bergen
Norwegian writers
European anthropologists
Leipzig (district) Emory University faculty Harvard University faculty