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Fredrik Barth
Researcher at University of Oslo
Publications - 59
Citations - 9690
Fredrik Barth is an academic researcher from University of Oslo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social organization & Tribe. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 58 publications receiving 9472 citations. Previous affiliations of Fredrik Barth include University of Chicago & Boston University.
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Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: The Social Organization of Culture Difference
Maurice Freedman,Fredrik Barth +1 more
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Ethnic groups and boundaries : The social organization of culture difference
TL;DR: The seven brief essays appearing in this collection were, with a few others, originally written for a symposium held in Bergen in 1967 as mentioned in this paper, and they bear the marks of a well-prepared and well-managed conference, although they are perhaps not quite so unified in their theoretical character as the editor's Preface might lead one to think.
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Political leadership among Swat Pathans
TL;DR: A classic and highly influential ethnography, which explores political leadership among Swat Pathans, emphasizes the importance of individual decision-making for wider social processes as mentioned in this paper. But it does not consider the role of women in political leadership.
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Ecologic Relationships of Ethnic Groups in Swat, North Pakistan
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply a more specific ecologic approach to a case study of distribution by utilizing some of the concepts of animal ecology, particularly the concept of a niche-the place of a group in the total environment, its relations to resources and competitors.