Thomas Hylland Eriksen
Born
in Oslo, Norway
February 06, 1962
Died
November 27, 2024
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Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
31 editions
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1995
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Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age
26 editions
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2001
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Syv meninger med livet
3 editions
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2022
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Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change
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Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives
18 editions
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1993
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A History of Anthropology
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8 editions
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2001
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What Is Anthropology?
13 editions
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2003
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Storeulvsyndromet
5 editions
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published
2008
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Globalization: The Key Concepts
16 editions
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2007
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Appenes planet
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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.”
― Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology
― 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.”
― Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives
― 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”
― Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives
― Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives
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