Svein Bjerke
Norwegian anthropologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Svein Bjerke , is a religious historian and professor emeritus at the University of Oslo, where he was attached to the Department for the History of Religion for thirty years, part of the time as its head. He belonged to the first Norwegian group of anthropology students, but has since worked with archeological excavations , philological text analyses and traditional anthropological field work. His most well-known work is the doctoral dissertation Religion and Misfortune based on fieldwork in North-Western Tanzania. Bjerke has represented Norwegian Comparative religion in the International Association for the History of Religion and for a number of years been a member of the editorial board of the journal Humanist.
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- The High God Among the Zinza of Northwestern Tanzania 1) (1969) (5)
- Religion and misfortune : the Bacwezi complex and the other spirit cults of the Zinza of northwestern Tanzania (1982) (5)
- Ecology of Religion, Evolutionism and Comparative Religion (1979) (5)
- Remarks On the Egyptian Ritual of Opening the Mouth' and Its Interpretation (1965) (3)
- Religion and Misfortune: The Bacwezi Complex and Other Spirit Cults of the Zinza of Northwestern Tanzania. (1985) (2)
- Book Reviews : Barth, Fredrik: Ritual and knowledge among the Baktaman of New Guinea. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo and Yale University Press, New Haven, 1975. 291 pp (1976) (1)
- Symbolism and magical acts (1979) (1)
- THE HIGH GOD AMONG THE ZINZA OF (2016) (0)
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