Books By Fredrik Barth - Author

Fredrik Barth was a Norwegian social anthropologist. He was a professor in the Department of Anthropology at Boston University and had previously held professorships at the University of Oslo, the University of Bergen, Emory University and Harvard University. He was well-known among anthropologists for his transactional analysis of politic processes in the Swat Valley of northern Pakistan and his study of microeconomic processes and entrepreneurship in Darfur in Sudan.