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Thomas Hylland Eriksen is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. He is a scholar of identity politics, cultural dynamics, the global response to accelerating change and crisis, and the Creole world. He has published numerous works, including Common Denominators: Ethnicity, Nationalism and the Politics of Compromise in Mauritius, Fredrik Barth: An Intellectual Biography, and Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change. He has also published many research articles showcasing his work, including, Confessions of a Useful Idiot (Or why Culture Should be Brought Back In), The Internet, the “Laws of Media” and Identity Politics, and Mind the Gap: Flexibility, Epistemology and the Rhetoric of New Work. At times a minor figure in Norwegian party politics, he has been a vocal critic of the emergence of Nationalism in Norway’s public discourse.

From 2012–2016, Eriksen served as the president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. He received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council in 2011, and used those funds to direct research on major areas of crises in globalization initiatives. He is an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society, and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

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According to Wikipedia, Thomas Hylland Eriksen is a Norwegian anthropologist. He is currently a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, as well as the 2015–2016 president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

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Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives (2003) (1236)
Ethnicity and Nationalism (1992) (781)
Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age (2001) (286)
History of Anthropology (252)
Globalization: The Key Concepts (2007) (229)
Culture and Rights: Between universalism and relativism: a critique of the UNESCO concept of culture (2001) (146)
THE CULTURAL CONTEXTS OF ETHNIC DIFFERENCES (1991) (137)
Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change (2016) (136)
Nationalism and the Internet (2007) (130)
Engaging Anthropology: The Case for a Public Presence (2005) (126)
Common Denominators: Ethnicity, Nation-Building and Compromise in Mauritius (1998) (125)
What is Anthropology (2008) (97)
Ethnicity versus Nationalism (1991) (89)
Formal and informal nationalism (1993) (72)
Us and Them in Modern Societies: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Mauritius, Trinidad and Beyond (1992) (69)
Linguistic Hegemony and Minority Resistance (1992) (67)
Place, kinship and the case for non-ethnic nations (2004) (64)
Flag, nation and symbolism in Europe and America (2007) (64)
Complexity in social and cultural integration: Some analytical dimensions (2007) (60)
We and Us: Two Modes of Group Identification (1995) (58)
In which sense do cultural islands exist (2007) (52)
Nationalism, Mauritian Style: Cultural Unity and Ethnic Diversity (1994) (50)
What Is Cultural Complexity (2016) (44)
Diversity Versus Difference: Neo-liberalism in the Minority-Debate (2006) (40)
Linguistic diversity and the quest for national identity: The case of Mauritius (1990) (37)
Tyranny Of The Moment (2001) (36)
Creolization and creativity (2003) (36)
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropology (2016) (36)
Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Minority Rights: Ethnicity, class, and the 1999 Mauritian riots (2004) (34)
Software, sports day and sheera: Culture and identity processes within a global software organization in India (2010) (34)
‘The concept of neoliberalism has become an obstacle to the anthropological understanding of the twenty-first century’† (2015) (33)
Overheating: the world since 1991 (2016) (32)
A World of Insecurity: Anthropological Perspectives on Human Security (2014) (32)
Some questions about flags (2007) (31)
Creolization in Anthropological Theory and in Mauritius (2016) (27)
Reworking Modernity: Capitalism and Symbolic Discontent. (1994) (27)
Globalisation: Studies in Anthropology (2013) (25)
Time and the Other: Waiting and Hope among Irregular Migrants (2020) (25)
Fredrik Barth: An Intellectual Biography (2015) (23)
International Relations as a Cultural System: (1993) (23)
A Broad Concept that Encourages Interdisciplinary Thinking (2004) (22)
Us and Them in Modern Societies: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Trinidad, Mauritius and Beyond. (1994) (20)
Rebuilding the ship at sea: super-diversity, person and conduct in eastern Oslo (2015) (19)
Keeping the recipe: Norwegian folk costumes and cultural capital (2004) (18)
Waste and the superfluous: an introduction (2017) (18)
Steps to an ecology of transnational sports (2007) (18)
Scales of Environmental Engagement in an Industrial Town: Glocal Perspectives from Gladstone, Queensland (2018) (16)
Multiple traditions and the question of cultural integration (1992) (15)
Sound of Africa : Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio (2005) (15)
Economies of Ethnicity (2005) (14)
A Non-ethnic State for Africa? A Life-world Approach to the Imagining of Communities (1999) (14)
Trust and reciprocity in transnational flows (2007) (13)
Rocketborne Rayleigh lidar for in situ measurements of neutral atmospheric density. (1999) (13)
Mind the Gap: Flexibility, Epistemology and the Rhetoric of New Work (2005) (13)
Tu dimunn pu vini kreol : The Mauritian creole and the concept of creolization 1 (2000) (13)
Ethnicity and Nationalism: Definitions and Critical Reflections ∗ (1992) (12)
Identity Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World (2016) (12)
THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL STATUS OF THE CONCEPT OF ETHNICITY (2010) (11)
Economies of Growth or Ecologies of Survival? (2018) (11)
Xenophobic Exclusion and the New Right in Norway (2012) (11)
Mauritian Society between the Ethnic and the Non-Ethnic (1997) (11)
Knowing from the Indigenous North (2018) (10)
Who or What to Blame (2014) (10)
The Loss of Diversity in the Anthropocene Biological and Cultural Dimensions (2021) (9)
Ritual efficacy, spiritual security and human security: Spirit mediumship in contemporary Vietnam (2010) (8)
Nationalism in a global era: the persistence of nations (2009) (8)
Botulism infection after eating fish in Norway and Germany: two outbreak reports (2004) (8)
Social Anthropology and the Shifting Discourses about Immigrants in Norway (2016) (8)
Sex, violence and nationalism (2017) (7)
BEING NORWEGIAN IN A SHRINKING WORLD REFLECTIONS ON NORWEGIAN IDENTITY (2019) (7)
A Future-Oriented, Non-Ethnic Nationalism? Mauritius as an Examplary Case (1993) (7)
What is a society (2011) (7)
Ernest Gellner and the multicultural mess (2007) (7)
Nations in cyberspace (2006) (7)
‘Anthropologists Are Talking’: About Anthropology and Post-Apartheid South Africa (2012) (7)
The Sexual Life of Nations. Notes on gender and nationhood (2002) (6)
After the nation? Critical reflections on nationalism and postnationalism (2015) (6)
Means of Communication (2012) (6)
The challenges of anthropology (2010) (5)
Place Names in Multicultural Societies (2012) (5)
Global Citizenship and the Challenge from Cultural Relativism (2017) (5)
A Community of European Social Anthropologists (1991) (5)
Stacking and continuity: On temporal regimes in popular culture (2007) (5)
What is European about European anthropology (2019) (5)
Nothing to lose but our aitches (2005) (5)
The Young Rebel and the Dusty Professor: A Tale of Anthropologists and the Media in Norway (2003) (5)
Security and insecurity in fragile urban fabrics (2018) (5)
Introduction : Ethnic groups, boundaries and beyond (2018) (5)
‘Anthropologists are talking’ about the new right in Europe (2003) (5)
The cartoon controversy and the possibility of cosmopolitanism (2007) (5)
Containing Conflict and Transcending Ethnicity in Mauritius (1992) (4)
Knowledge and power in an overheated world (2017) (4)
Some Current Priorities for Ethnicity Studies (2001) (4)
A closure for lee wave drag on the large-scale ocean circulation (2021) (4)
The Otherness of Norwegian Anthropology (2007) (4)
Pandemic precarity (2021) (4)
Gabriella Elgenius: Symbols of Nations and Nationalism: Celebrating Nationhood, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2012) (4)
Producing power: ethnicity, gender and class in a Caribbean workplace. (1996) (4)
Between inequality and difference: the creole world in the twenty‐first century (2019) (4)
Anthropology as counter-culture: an interview with Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Interview (2017) (3)
The Art of Belonging in an Overheated World (2016) (3)
Multi-Ethnic Norway and Norweigian Immigration (2002) (3)
Boomtown: Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast (2018) (3)
Ethnicity: From Boundaries to Frontiers (2020) (3)
A better impact factor: Anthropology and climate change (2020) (3)
Norwegian Anthropologists Study Minorities at Home: Political and Academic Agendas (2009) (3)
Common Denominators: Ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of compromise in Mauritius (2017) (3)
Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today (2018) (3)
The problem of African nationhood (2016) (3)
Implications of runaway globalisation in the Seychelles (2020) (3)
Anthropology, History of (2001) (3)
Generation climate change (2021) (2)
Traditionalism and Neoliberalism (2004) (2)
Globalization : The Key Concepts Second edition (2019) (2)
A rocket-borne rayleigh LIDAR experiment in the middle atmosphere (1995) (2)
Tunnel vision: TUNNEL VISION (2007) (2)
The Sustainability of an Anthropology of the Anthropocene (2022) (2)
Traditionalism and Neoliberalism (2004) (2)
Afterword : Beyond the paradox of the big, bad wolf (2014) (2)
Globalization and Its Contradictions (2015) (2)
The Public Sphere and the Dialectics of Globalization (2014) (2)
Nationalism and the Internet n (2007) (2)
N orway, Anthropology in (2018) (1)
Towards a global conversation (2015) (1)
The Big Question: Abusing Language When Should Language be Restricted? (2012) (1)
Lessons Learned or a Missed Opportunity? Norway After the 22 July Terrorist Attack (2018) (1)
Languages at the margins of modernity : Linguistic minorities and the nation-state (2019) (1)
Eduardo P. Archetti (1943–2005) (2005) (1)
Filling the apps (2020) (1)
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour (review) (2020) (1)
A philosophy for our times (2017) (1)
A brief response (2017) (1)
Creolisation as a Recipe for Conviviality (2019) (1)
FREDRIK BARTH (1928–2016) (2016) (1)
Ulf Hannerz and the militant middle ground (2015) (1)
1 INDIANS IN NEW WORLDS : MAURITIUS AND TRINIDAD (2019) (1)
Chapter 2. After 22 July 2011: Norwegians Together (2017) (1)
Cultural contagion in a new key (2006) (1)
Rocket for Optical studies of the Neutral Atmosphere by Laser Detection (RONALD) (1991) (1)
Public Anthropology in the 21st Century, with Some Examples from Norway (2016) (1)
Beyond a boundary (2018) (1)
Standing Still at Full Speed: Sports in an Overheated World (2021) (1)
Why the Hermeneutic Turn (2003) (1)
Why Anthropology Matters (2020) (1)
Person, Time and Conduct in Alna (2015) (1)
Multiculturalism, Anthropology of (2015) (1)
Derek Fewster, Visions of Past Glory: Nationalism and the Construction of Early Finnish History (2006) (1)
Conflicting regimes of knowledge about Gladstone Harbour: A drama in four acts (2017) (1)
What Went Wrong? (2020) (1)
Without impunity (2018) (1)
ICTS FOR THE POOREST OF THE RURAL POOR (2013) (1)
Tidal Flat Sedimentation in an Arctic Environment : a Field Study from Braganzavågen, Spitsbergen (2013) (1)
An Overheated World (2018) (1)
Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought: Ernest Gellner and the multicultural mess (2007) (1)
The Tragedy of the Cultural Commons (2019) (1)
Everything is at a time and in a place (2022) (1)
The concept of neo-liberalism has become an obstacle to the anthropological understanding of the twenty-first century: 2012 debate of the Group for Debates in Anthropological Theory (2015) (1)
Book Notes (1979) (0)
NOTES ON GENDER AND NATIONHOOD (2019) (0)
Karen Fog Olwig: Global Culture, Island Identity: Continuity and Change in the Afro-Caribbean Community of Nevis (2019) (0)
Post September 11 Legal Regulations of the Hawala System: The Predicament of Somalis in Norway (2016) (0)
Book Notes (1993) (0)
Engaging Anthropology (2020) (0)
Constructing Transnational and Transracial Identity: Adoption and Belonging in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Sigalit Ben-Zion. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 265 pp. (2017) (0)
Determining the driving processes of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation from CCSM data (2017) (0)
A Short History of Engagement (2020) (0)
THE IDEA OF A EUROPEAN UKRAINE BY OleksandraLozytska (2016) (0)
Empowerment i praksis (2012) (0)
The gift of being needed (2021) (0)
Contested Symbols: Language and Religion (2020) (0)
Session 8: Internal medicine; diagnostic imaging; cardiology (2021) (0)
Anthropology: the basics – Peter Metcalf (2006) (0)
Follow the money: competing knowledge regimes in an overheated city (2018) (0)
Sex, violence and nationalism * (2019) (0)
COUNTERREACTIONS TO GLOBAL MODERNITY (2019) (0)
Axel Sommerfelt in the history of social anthropology (2022) (0)
Arts activities for social transformation amongst children and adolescents -a case study in Buenos Aires (2013) (0)
Gustav Storm's 1899 Heimskringla as (1995) (0)
Automated Care in New Zealand (2022) (0)
The contemporary world is ... too full ? Too intense ? Too fast ? Too hot ? Too unequal ? Too neoliberal ? (2020) (0)
Introduction:: Anthropological Perspectives on Global Economic and Environmental Crises in an Overheated World (2019) (0)
Mauritius Past and Present (2020) (0)
Book Notes (1992) (0)
Language and Identity: National, Ethnic, Religious: John E. Joseph (2006) (0)
Identity: a very short introduction (2021) (0)
DIMUNN PU VINI KREOL: THE MAURITIAN CREOLE AND THE CONCEPT OF CREOLIZATION (2019) (0)
Recursive Visions: Gregory Bateson and the North Sea Ethnicity Paradigm (2009) (0)
Fields and Levels of Mauritian Society (2020) (0)
Cultural contestation in ethnic conflict – By Marc Howard Ross (2008) (0)
Book Notes (1993) (0)
There was no ‘there’ there any more (2019) (0)
Foundations of national identity: from Catalonia to Europe – Llobera, Josep R. (2006) (0)
The Mauritian Dilemma (2020) (0)
IDENTITY: DISCOURSES AND POLITICS OF OTHERNESS (2011) (0)
Multicultural Britain Issues and controversies CONTRIBUTORS (2011) (0)
Book Notes (2003) (0)
WALLS: VANISHING BOUNDARIES OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (2019) (0)
From Vulnerability to Sustainability? The Enforced Cooling Down of an Overheated World (2021) (0)
Complexity and Context (2020) (0)
1 SYMBOLIC POWER STRUGGLES IN INTER-CULTURAL SPACE (2019) (0)
THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN REPLIES (2022) (0)
A Concept of Eurasia Comments (2016) (0)
Dominant nationalism, dominant ethnicity (2011) (0)
Barth, Fredrik (1928–) (2015) (0)
Race and sexuality (2019) (0)
Narrative and Analysis (2020) (0)
Cross-Cutting Ties: The Non-Ethnic (2020) (0)
The enforced cooling down of an overheated world (2020) (0)
Justice, Loyalty and Cosmopolitan Politesse in Mauritius (2018) (0)
Epilogue:: Declining Europe (2018) (0)
Culture seen as a commons: Osmosis, crossroads and the paradoxes of identity (2015) (0)
IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION OF THE MINORITY (2020) (0)
Afterword An Overheated World (2020) (0)
In praise of Slowness and Unpleasant Smells. Some Refelctions on the near Future of the Open-Air Museum (2008) (0)
Diapycnal diffusivity induced by the breaking of lee waves (2020) (0)
TRUST IN TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS (2005) (0)
Minneord over Eduardo Archetti (2005) (0)
Introduction A Shrinking Planet (2020) (0)
Hegemoni i dansk økonomisk politik (2013) (0)
The paradox of autonomy (2018) (0)
Re-embedding Identity Politics as a Response to Globalization (2018) (0)
Book Notes (2003) (0)
Guest editorial introduction : the Seychelles in the 21st century (2020) (0)
Book Review: Life in the Air: Surviving the New Culture of Air Travel (2001) (0)
Being irrelevant in a relevant way : Anthropology and the public wisdom (2018) (0)
Fast and Slow Media (2020) (0)
The problem of power: Partial electrification in Northern Uganda (2022) (0)
Book Notes (1991) (0)
Introduction: Beyond precarity in sub‐Saharan Africa (2022) (0)
Perennial crisis and the loss of flexibility (2023) (0)
Susanne Brandstädter, Peter Wade og Kath Woodward (red.): Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens (2015) (0)
Language and Ethnic Hierarchy in Mauritius (2018) (0)
Conclusions and Prospects (2020) (0)
Ethnography in all the right places * (2020) (0)
Book Notes (2003) (0)
BATESON AND THE NORTH SEA ETHNICITY PARADIGM (2019) (0)
Mauritian Nationhoods (2020) (0)
Extractive Industries in an Overheated World (2018) (0)
DOES AFRICA NEED MUSEUMS? Communication of culture for development in Senegal and Mali, (2013) (0)
Dimensions of Ethnicity (2020) (0)
Book notes (1976) (0)
Climate Change (0)
Human Waste in the Land of Abundance: (2018) (0)
Book Reviews : Bryan S. Turner: Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism. London: Routledge, 1994 (1995) (0)
1 The Meaning of ‘We’ (2015) (0)
Altercentric Writing (2020) (0)
Identity Politics (2020) (0)
Common Denominators (2020) (0)
The Globalization of the Insult: Freedom of Expression meets Cosmopolitan Thinking (2016) (0)

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