Unni Wikan
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Norwegian anthropologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Unni Wikan is professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has served as visiting professor at the University of Chicago , Harvard University , Goethe University, Frankfurt , London School of Economics , École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris . She has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard University , guest lecturer at Harvard , guest lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel and visiting assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University .
Unni Wikan's Published Works
Published Works
- Managing Turbulent Hearts: A Balinese Formula for Living (1990) (223)
- Generous Betrayal: Politics of Culture in the New Europe (2001) (187)
- Shame and Honour: A Contestable Pair (1984) (148)
- Beyond the words: the power of resonance (1992) (134)
- Bereavement and loss in two Muslim communities: Egypt and Bali compared. (1988) (133)
- Behind the Veil in Arabia: Women in Oman (1982) (131)
- : Modernizing Women: Gender and Social Change in the Middle East . Valentine M. Moghadam. (1995) (131)
- Toward an Experience‐Near Anthropology (1991) (128)
- Man Becomes Woman: Transsexualism in Oman as a Key to Gender Roles (1977) (123)
- managing the heart to brighten face and soul: emotions in Balinese morality and health care (1989) (95)
- In Honor of Fadime: Murder and Shame (2008) (85)
- Culture: A new concept of race (1999) (63)
- Life among the poor in Cairo (1970) (57)
- Illness from fright or soul loss: A North Balinese culture-bound syndrome? (1989) (45)
- Public Grace and Private Fears: Gaiety, Offense, and Sorcery in Northern Bali (1987) (35)
- Women and the Family in the Middle East (1988) (32)
- Tomorrow, God Willing: Self-made Destinies in Cairo (1996) (28)
- Citizenship on trial : Nadia's case (2000) (26)
- Sustainable Development in the Mega-City: Can the Concept Be Made Applicable? (1995) (24)
- Living conditions among Cairo's poor: a view from below (1985) (23)
- The Self in a World of Urgency and Necessity (1995) (23)
- Debate. Culture in the nation and public opinion : a Norwegian case (2007) (19)
- The Omani Xanith: A Third Gender Role? (1978) (16)
- The nun's story : Reflections on an age-old, postmodern dilemma (1996) (15)
- Resonance: Beyond the Words (2013) (14)
- Cross-cultural features of women's place in society. (1990) (10)
- Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo. DIANE SINGERMAN (1996) (8)
- On Sustainable Development in the Mega-City (1996) (3)
- "My Son—A Terrorist?" (He was such a gentle boy) (2002) (2)
- Life among the Urban Poor in Cairo. (1982) (1)
- Humility First: (2019) (1)
- Passions as Cognitive and Moral Mistakes: The Case of Honor Killings in Europe (2009) (1)
- Comment on Abu-Lughod's Review of "Behind the Veil in Arabia" (1985) (1)
- ANTHROPOLOGY AWARD WINNERS (2001) (1)
- Humanitarian Reason. A Moral History of the Present. Didier Fassin. University of California Press: Berkeley, CA. 2012. ix‐336 pp. Originally published in French as La Raison Humanitaire. Une histoire morale du temps present, 2010. Translated by Rachel Gomme. (2013) (1)
- Title Index, Books Reviewed (1996) (0)
- 3. Pela, or History Repeats Itself (2019) (0)
- Book reviews (1993) (0)
- 13. Nadia’s Case: Another Question of Honor (2019) (0)
- 13. Rethinking Honor In Regard To Human Rights: An Educational Imperative In Troubled Times (2019) (0)
- 14. The Zedini Case: Was Honor at Stake? (2019) (0)
- Portrait: Gananath Obeyesekere (2014) (0)
- 17. The Mother (2019) (0)
- Perils and Prospects of Going Public: Between Academia and Real Life (2017) (0)
- Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing, 2001 (2001) (0)
- Baladi Women of Cairo: Playing with an Egg and a Stone. EVELYN A. EARLY (1995) (0)
- Women After All (2015) (0)
- 4. What Is Honor (2019) (0)
- 7. At a Trial (2019) (0)
- Changing Housing Strategies and Patterns among the Cairo Poor, 1950-85 (2018) (0)
- 20. At Stake: A Perception of Humanity (2019) (0)
- SOCIAL/CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY: The Balinese People: A Reinvestigation of Character. Gordon D. Jensen and Luh Ketut Suryani. (1993) (0)
- 12. Intermission: Honor in the Courtroom (2019) (0)
- 2. Sara: “Too Swedish” for a Right to Live (2019) (0)
- Perils and Prospects of Going Public:: Between Academia and Real Life (2017) (0)
- BOOK REVIEWS (2000) (0)
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