The Most Famous
ANTHROPOLOGISTS from Norway
This page contains a list of the greatest Norwegian Anthropologists. The pantheon dataset contains 93 Anthropologists, 1 of which were born in Norway. This makes Norway the birth place of the 25th most number of Anthropologists behind Spain, and Ukraine.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Norwegian Anthropologists of all time. This list of famous Norwegian Anthropologists is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Thomas Hylland Eriksen (b. 1962)
With an HPI of 39.76, Thomas Hylland Eriksen is the most famous Norwegian Anthropologist. His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.
Geir Thomas Hylland Eriksen (born February 6, 1962) is a Norwegian anthropologist known for his scholarly and popular writing on globalization, identity, ethnicity, and nationalism. He is currently Professor of Social Anthropology in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo. He has previously served as the President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (2015-2016), as well as the Editor of Samtiden (1993-2001), Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift (1993-1997), the Journal of Peace Research, and Ethnos. Eriksen is among the most prolific and highly cited anthropologists of his generation, and has been recognized for his remarkable success in bringing an anthropological perspective to a broader, non-academic audience. In Norway, Eriksen is a well-known public intellectual whose advocacy of diversity and cultural pluralism has earned both praise and scorn. Right-wing terrorist Anders Behring Breivik, perpetrator of the 2011 Norway attacks, cited Eriksen critically in his manifesto and during his 2012 trial. In the academy and beyond, Eriksen has been highly decorated for his scholarship. He is the recipient of honorary degrees from Stockholm University (2011), the University of Copenhagen (2021), and Charles University in Prague (2021), as well as one of anthropology's most prestigious honors, the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography's Gold Medal (2022). He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Norwegian anthropologists born between 1962 and 1962. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Norwegian anthropologists include Thomas Hylland Eriksen.
