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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) (1229)
Ethnicity and Nationalism (1992) (776)
Tyranny of the Moment: Fast and Slow Time in the Information Age (2001) (283)
History of Anthropology (250)
Globalization: The Key Concepts (2007) (225)
Culture and Rights: Between universalism and relativism: a critique of the UNESCO concept of culture (2001) (144)
THE CULTURAL CONTEXTS OF ETHNIC DIFFERENCES (1991) (137)
Overheating: An Anthropology of Accelerated Change (2016) (128)
Nationalism and the Internet (2007) (127)
Engaging Anthropology: The Case for a Public Presence (2005) (126)
Common Denominators: Ethnicity, Nation-Building and Compromise in Mauritius (1998) (124)
What is Anthropology (2008) (93)
Ethnicity versus Nationalism (1991) (88)
Formal and informal nationalism (1993) (70)
Us and Them in Modern Societies: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Mauritius, Trinidad and Beyond (1992) (69)
Linguistic Hegemony and Minority Resistance (1992) (65)
Flag, nation and symbolism in Europe and America (2007) (64)
Place, kinship and the case for non-ethnic nations (2004) (64)
Complexity in social and cultural integration: Some analytical dimensions (2007) (59)
We and Us: Two Modes of Group Identification (1995) (57)
In which sense do cultural islands exist (2007) (51)
Nationalism, Mauritian Style: Cultural Unity and Ethnic Diversity (1994) (50)
What Is Cultural Complexity (2016) (42)
Diversity Versus Difference: Neo-liberalism in the Minority-Debate (2006) (39)
Brexit Referendum: first reactions from anthropology (2016) (36)
Creolization and creativity (2003) (35)
Tyranny Of The Moment (2001) (35)
Linguistic diversity and the quest for national identity: The case of Mauritius (1990) (35)
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) (33)
‘The concept of neoliberalism has become an obstacle to the anthropological understanding of the twenty-first century’† (2015) (33)
A World of Insecurity: Anthropological Perspectives on Human Security (2014) (32)
Some questions about flags (2007) (30)
Overheating: the world since 1991 (2016) (29)
Reworking Modernity: Capitalism and Symbolic Discontent. (1994) (28)
Creolization in Anthropological Theory and in Mauritius (2016) (26)
Globalisation: Studies in Anthropology (2013) (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)
Time and the Other: Waiting and Hope among Irregular Migrants (2020) (19)
Steps to an ecology of transnational sports (2007) (18)
Keeping the recipe: Norwegian folk costumes and cultural capital (2004) (17)
Waste and the superfluous: an introduction (2017) (17)
Scales of Environmental Engagement in an Industrial Town: Glocal Perspectives from Gladstone, Queensland (2018) (16)
Sound of Africa : Making Music Zulu in a South African Studio (2005) (15)
Multiple traditions and the question of cultural integration (1992) (15)
A Non-ethnic State for Africa? A Life-world Approach to the Imagining of Communities (1999) (14)
Economies of Ethnicity (2005) (14)
Trust and reciprocity in transnational flows (2007) (13)
Tu dimunn pu vini kreol : The Mauritian creole and the concept of creolization 1 (2000) (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)
Identity Destabilised: Living in an Overheated World (2016) (12)
Ethnicity and Nationalism: Definitions and Critical Reflections ∗ (1992) (12)
THE EPISTEMOLOGICAL STATUS OF THE CONCEPT OF ETHNICITY (2010) (11)
Economies of Growth or Ecologies of Survival? (2018) (11)
Mauritian Society between the Ethnic and the Non-Ethnic (1997) (11)
Xenophobic Exclusion and the New Right in Norway (2012) (11)
Knowing from the Indigenous North (2018) (10)
Who or What to Blame (2014) (10)
What is a society (2011) (8)
Nationalism in a global era: the persistence of nations (2009) (8)
Ritual efficacy, spiritual security and human security: Spirit mediumship in contemporary Vietnam (2010) (8)
Social Anthropology and the Shifting Discourses about Immigrants in Norway (2016) (8)
The Loss of Diversity in the Anthropocene Biological and Cultural Dimensions (2021) (8)
BEING NORWEGIAN IN A SHRINKING WORLD REFLECTIONS ON NORWEGIAN IDENTITY (2019) (7)
‘Anthropologists Are Talking’: About Anthropology and Post-Apartheid South Africa (2012) (7)
Nations in cyberspace (2006) (7)
Sex, violence and nationalism (2017) (7)
A Future-Oriented, Non-Ethnic Nationalism? Mauritius as an Examplary Case (1993) (7)
Botulism infection after eating fish in Norway and Germany: two outbreak reports (2004) (7)
Ernest Gellner and the multicultural mess (2007) (6)
After the nation? Critical reflections on nationalism and postnationalism (2015) (6)
Means of Communication (2012) (6)
The Sexual Life of Nations. Notes on gender and nationhood (2002) (6)
A Community of European Social Anthropologists (1991) (5)
The Young Rebel and the Dusty Professor: A Tale of Anthropologists and the Media in Norway (2003) (5)
Global Citizenship and the Challenge from Cultural Relativism (2017) (5)
Nothing to lose but our aitches (2005) (5)
The cartoon controversy and the possibility of cosmopolitanism (2007) (5)
‘Anthropologists are talking’ about the new right in Europe (2003) (5)
What is European about European anthropology (2019) (5)
Place Names in Multicultural Societies (2012) (5)
Stacking and continuity: On temporal regimes in popular culture (2007) (5)
Security and insecurity in fragile urban fabrics (2018) (5)
The challenges of anthropology (2010) (5)
Introduction : Ethnic groups, boundaries and beyond (2018) (5)
Some Current Priorities for Ethnicity Studies (2001) (4)
The Otherness of Norwegian Anthropology (2007) (4)
Between inequality and difference: the creole world in the twenty‐first century (2019) (4)
Pandemic precarity (2021) (4)
Containing Conflict and Transcending Ethnicity in Mauritius (1992) (4)
Knowledge and power in an overheated world (2017) (4)
Producing power: ethnicity, gender and class in a Caribbean workplace. (1996) (4)
Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today (2018) (3)
Anthropology, History of (2001) (3)
A closure for lee wave drag on the large-scale ocean circulation (2021) (3)
Implications of runaway globalisation in the Seychelles (2020) (3)
Common Denominators: Ethnicity, nationalism and the politics of compromise in Mauritius (2017) (3)
Multi-Ethnic Norway and Norweigian Immigration (2002) (3)
Anthropology as counter-culture: an interview with Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Interview (2017) (3)
The Art of Belonging in an Overheated World (2016) (3)
The problem of African nationhood (2016) (3)
Boomtown: Runaway Globalisation on the Queensland Coast (2018) (3)
Ethnicity: From Boundaries to Frontiers (2020) (3)
Norwegian Anthropologists Study Minorities at Home: Political and Academic Agendas (2009) (3)
Gabriella Elgenius: Symbols of Nations and Nationalism: Celebrating Nationhood, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan (2012) (3)
Traditionalism and Neoliberalism (2004) (2)
Tunnel vision: TUNNEL VISION (2007) (2)
Generation climate change (2021) (2)
Globalization : The Key Concepts Second edition (2019) (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)
Traditionalism and Neoliberalism (2004) (2)
A rocket-borne rayleigh LIDAR experiment in the middle atmosphere (1995) (2)
The Big Question: Abusing Language When Should Language be Restricted? (2012) (1)
Why Anthropology Matters (2020) (1)
What Went Wrong? (2020) (1)
Down to Earth: Politics in the New Climatic Regime by Bruno Latour (2020) (1)
Conflicting regimes of knowledge about Gladstone Harbour: A drama in four acts (2017) (1)
Derek Fewster, Visions of Past Glory: Nationalism and the Construction of Early Finnish History (2006) (1)
A brief response (2017) (1)
Chapter 2. After 22 July 2011: Norwegians Together (2017) (1)
Public Anthropology in the 21st Century, with Some Examples from Norway (2016) (1)
The Tragedy of the Cultural Commons (2019) (1)
An Overheated World (2018) (1)
FREDRIK BARTH (1928–2016) (2016) (1)
Creolisation as a Recipe for Conviviality (2019) (1)
Ulf Hannerz and the militant middle ground (2015) (1)
Why the Hermeneutic Turn (2003) (1)
Towards a global conversation (2015) (1)
Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought: Ernest Gellner and the multicultural mess (2007) (1)
Beyond a boundary (2018) (1)
Rocket for Optical studies of the Neutral Atmosphere by Laser Detection (RONALD) (1991) (1)
Cultural contagion in a new key (2006) (1)
Everything is at a time and in a place (2022) (1)
ICTS FOR THE POOREST OF THE RURAL POOR (2013) (1)
Multiculturalism, Anthropology of (2015) (1)
Eduardo P. Archetti (1943–2005) (2005) (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)
A philosophy for our times (2017) (1)
Tidal Flat Sedimentation in an Arctic Environment : a Field Study from Braganzavågen, Spitsbergen (2013) (1)
N orway, Anthropology in (2018) (1)
1 INDIANS IN NEW WORLDS : MAURITIUS AND TRINIDAD (2019) (1)
Without impunity (2018) (1)
Filling the apps (2020) (1)
Standing Still at Full Speed: Sports in an Overheated World (2021) (1)
Person, Time and Conduct in Alna (2015) (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)
Sex, violence and nationalism * (2019) (0)
Re-embedding Identity Politics as a Response to Globalization (2018) (0)
Automated Care in New Zealand (2022) (0)
Culture seen as a commons: Osmosis, crossroads and the paradoxes of identity (2015) (0)
Language and Identity: National, Ethnic, Religious: John E. Joseph (2006) (0)
Epilogue:: Declining Europe (2018) (0)
The enforced cooling down of an overheated world (2020) (0)
Post September 11 Legal Regulations of the Hawala System: The Predicament of Somalis in Norway (2016) (0)
Gustav Storm's 1899 Heimskringla as (1995) (0)
Dominant nationalism, dominant ethnicity (2011) (0)
Session 8: Internal medicine; diagnostic imaging; cardiology (2021) (0)
A Short History of Engagement (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)
Altercentric Writing (2020) (0)
Afterword An Overheated World (2020) (0)
The paradox of autonomy (2018) (0)
WALLS: VANISHING BOUNDARIES OF SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (2019) (0)
Book Notes (1993) (0)
Foundations of national identity: from Catalonia to Europe – Llobera, Josep R. (2006) (0)
Race and sexuality (2019) (0)
Identity: a very short introduction (2021) (0)
Being irrelevant in a relevant way : Anthropology and the public wisdom (2018) (0)
BATESON AND THE NORTH SEA ETHNICITY PARADIGM (2019) (0)
Dimensions of Ethnicity (2020) (0)
1 SYMBOLIC POWER STRUGGLES IN INTER-CULTURAL SPACE (2019) (0)
From Vulnerability to Sustainability? The Enforced Cooling Down of an Overheated World (2021) (0)
The Globalization of the Insult: Freedom of Expression meets Cosmopolitan Thinking (2016) (0)
The problem of power: Partial electrification in Northern Uganda (2022) (0)
Book Reviews : Bryan S. Turner: Orientalism, Postmodernism and Globalism. London: Routledge, 1994 (1995) (0)
Contested Symbols: Language and Religion (2020) (0)
TRUST IN TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS (2005) (0)
Anthropology: the basics – Peter Metcalf (2006) (0)
Justice, Loyalty and Cosmopolitan Politesse in Mauritius (2018) (0)
Language and Ethnic Hierarchy in Mauritius (2018) (0)
A Concept of Eurasia Comments (2016) (0)
The gift of being needed (2021) (0)
Introduction: Beyond precarity in sub‐Saharan Africa (2022) (0)
COUNTERREACTIONS TO GLOBAL MODERNITY (2019) (0)
Book Notes (1944) (0)
Diapycnal diffusivity induced by the breaking of lee waves (2020) (0)
Mauritian Nationhoods (2020) (0)
Extractive Industries in an Overheated World (2018) (0)
IDENTITY CONSTRUCTION OF THE MINORITY (2020) (0)
Guest editorial introduction : the Seychelles in the 21st century (2020) (0)
IDENTITY: DISCOURSES AND POLITICS OF OTHERNESS (2011) (0)
Book Notes (2003) (0)
Narrative and Analysis (2020) (0)
THOMAS HYLLAND ERIKSEN REPLIES (2022) (0)
DIMUNN PU VINI KREOL: THE MAURITIAN CREOLE AND THE CONCEPT OF CREOLIZATION (2019) (0)
Book Notes (2003) (0)
Conclusions and Prospects (2020) (0)
Empowerment i praksis (2012) (0)
Introduction:: Anthropological Perspectives on Global Economic and Environmental Crises in an Overheated World (2019) (0)
Common Denominators (2020) (0)
Introduction A Shrinking Planet (2020) (0)
Axel Sommerfelt in the history of social anthropology (2022) (0)
Susanne Brandstädter, Peter Wade og Kath Woodward (red.): Rights, Cultures, Subjects and Citizens (2015) (0)
Climate Change (0)
Book Review: Life in the Air: Surviving the New Culture of Air Travel (2001) (0)
Cultural contestation in ethnic conflict – By Marc Howard Ross (2008) (0)
Cross-Cutting Ties: The Non-Ethnic (2020) (0)
Book Notes (1991) (0)
Mauritius Past and Present (2020) (0)
Arts activities for social transformation amongst children and adolescents -a case study in Buenos Aires (2013) (0)
Complexity and Context (2020) (0)
The Mauritian Dilemma (2020) (0)
Book Notes (1979) (0)
Fast and Slow Media (2020) (0)
NOTES ON GENDER AND NATIONHOOD (2019) (0)
Human Waste in the Land of Abundance: (2018) (0)
Book notes (1976) (0)
Identity Politics (2020) (0)
Barth, Fredrik (1928–) (2015) (0)
Follow the money: competing knowledge regimes in an overheated city (2018) (0)
Fields and Levels of Mauritian Society (2020) (0)
Book Notes (1992) (0)
There was no ‘there’ there any more (2019) (0)
Karen Fog Olwig: Global Culture, Island Identity: Continuity and Change in the Afro-Caribbean Community of Nevis (2019) (0)
Minneord over Eduardo Archetti (2005) (0)
Determining the driving processes of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation from CCSM data (2017) (0)
1 The Meaning of ‘We’ (2015) (0)
Hegemoni i dansk økonomisk politik (2013) (0)
Recursive Visions: Gregory Bateson and the North Sea Ethnicity Paradigm (2009) (0)
Ethnography in all the right places * (2020) (0)
Book Notes (1993) (0)
Book Notes (2003) (0)
The Sustainability of an Anthropology of the Anthropocene (2022) (0)
Multicultural Britain Issues and controversies CONTRIBUTORS (2011) (0)
THE IDEA OF A EUROPEAN UKRAINE BY OleksandraLozytska (2016) (0)
DOES AFRICA NEED MUSEUMS? Communication of culture for development in Senegal and Mali, (2013) (0)
Engaging Anthropology (2020) (0)
The contemporary world is ... too full ? Too intense ? Too fast ? Too hot ? Too unequal ? Too neoliberal ? (2020) (0)
In praise of Slowness and Unpleasant Smells. Some Refelctions on the near Future of the Open-Air Museum (2008) (0)

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