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Thomas Hylland Eriksen


Born
in Oslo, Norway
February 06, 1962

Died
November 27, 2024


Geir Thomas Hylland Eriksen was a Norwegian anthropologist known for his scholarly and popular writing on globalization, identity, ethnicity, and nationalism. He was Professor of Social Anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has previously served as the President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (2015–2016), as well as the Editor of Samtiden (1993–2001), Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift (1993–1997), the Journal of Peace Research, and Ethnos.
Hylland Eriksen was among the most prolific and highly cited anthropologists of his generation, and had been recognized for his remarkable success in bringing an anthropological perspective to a broader, non-academic audience. In Norway, Hyl
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“The single most important human insight to be gained from this way of comparing societies is perhaps the realization that everything could have been different in our own society – that the way we live is only one among innumerable ways of life which humans have adopted. If we glance sideways and backwards, we will quickly discover that modern society, with its many possibilities and seducing offers, its dizzying complexity and its impressive technological advances, is a way of life which has not been tried out for long. Perhaps, psychologically speaking, we have just left the cave: in terms of the history of our species, we have but spent a moment in modern societies. (..) Anthropology may not provide the answer to the question of the meaning of life, but at least it can tell us that there are many ways in which to make a life meaningful.”
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology

“Az etnicitás legfontosabb jellemzője a szisztematikus különbségtétel a kívülállók és a hozzánk tartozók, azaz a mi és az ők között. Ha ezt az elvet figyelmen kívül hagyjuk, nem lehet etnicitásról beszélni, hiszen az etnicitás intézményesített kapcsolatot feltételez olyan emberek között, akik kulturálisan különbözőnek tartják egymást. Ebből az alapelvből az következik, hogy két vagy több csoport, amelyek egymástól eltérőnek tartják magukat, a kölcsönös érintkezések gyakorisága folytán egyre jobban hasonlítanak egymásra, miközben egyre inkább meg vannak győződve a különbözőségükről.”
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives

“The North American situation, while different from the Brazilian one, reflects a similar complexity and ambiguity in the relationship between race and ethnicity. Whereas Brazilians have a great number of terms used to designate people of varying pigmentation, the ‘one-drop principle’ prevalent in the USA entails that people are either black or white, and that ‘a single drop of black blood’ (sic) contaminates an otherwise pale person and makes him or her black. Conversely, ethnic identity in the USA”
Thomas Hylland Eriksen, Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives

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