What is Fredrik Barth?
[[File:Fredrik Barth.jpg|thumb|right|200px|Barth in 2010]] '''Thomas Fredrik Weybye Barth''' (22 December 1928 &ndash; 24 January 2016) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] social [[Anthropology|anthropologist]]. He published several [[ethnography|ethnographic]] books with a clear [[formalism|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]].<ref name=snl>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Fredrik Barth Biography |language=Norwegian |first=Knut A. |last=Rosvold |url=http://snl.no/Fredrik_Barth |encyclopedia=[[Store Norske Leksikon]] |publisher=[[Kunnskapsforlaget]] |date=2012-08-09 |accessdate=2013-10-27}}</ref><ref name=nbl>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Fredrik Barth Extended Biography |language=Norwegian |first=Henning |last=Siverts |url=http://nbl.snl.no/Fredrik_Barth/utdypning |encyclopedia=[[Norsk Biografisk Leksikon]] |publisher=[[Kunnskapsforlaget]] |date=2009-02-13 |accessdate=2013-10-27}}</ref> He started the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen. He was elected a member of the [[Academia Europaea]] in 1989.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Barth_Fredrik |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328104806/https://www.ae-info.org/ae/Member/Barth_Fredrik |title=Fredrik Barth |publisher=Academia Europaea |archive-date=28 March 2019}}</ref> Barth died in [[Oslo]], [[Norway]] on 24 January 2016 at the age of 87. ==References== {{reflist}} ==Other websites== * [http://www.cholonautas.edu.pe/modulo/upload/Barth%20intr.pdf Los grupos étnicos y sus fronteras. Introducción] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060901221848/http://www.cholonautas.edu.pe/modulo/upload/Barth%20intr.pdf |date=2006-09-01 }} {{in lang|es}} * [http://www.cholonautas.edu.pe/modulo/upload/Barth%20Pathanes.pdf Los Pathanes: su identidad y conservación] {{Webarchive|url=https://w