Eriksen, Thomas Hylland

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
אריקסן, תומאס היילנד
Name (Latin)
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland
Name (Arabic)
إريكسن، توماس هايلاند، 1962-
Other forms of name
Hylland Eriksen, Thomas
אריקסן, תומס הילנד
היילנד אריקסן, תומאס
הילנד אריקסן, תומס
Date of birth
1962-02-06
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 85541997
Wikidata: Q1366902
Library of congress: nr 91005149
HAI10: 000097460
Sources of Information
  • Meḳomot ḳeṭanim, sugyot gedolot, 2023:title page (תומאס היילנד אריקסן = Tomas Hailand Eriḳsen) title page verso (Thomas Hylland Eriksen [in rom.])
  • His Communicating cultural differences and identity, 1988:t.p. (Thomas Hylland Eriksen)
  • His Ethnicity and nationalism, 1993:CIP t.p. (Thomas Hylland Eriksen) data sheet (b. 02-06-62)
  • מקומות קטנים, סוגיות גדולות, תשפ"ב 2021:שער (תומאס היילנד אריקסן, Thomas Hylland Eriksen)
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Wikipedia description:

Geir Thomas Hylland Eriksen (6 February 1962 – 27 November 2024) was a Norwegian anthropologist known for his scholarly and popular writing on globalization, culture, identity, ethnicity, and nationalism. He was 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. He was an honorary member of the Royal Anthropological Institute and an external scientific member of the Max Planck Society. Hylland Eriksen was among the most prolific and highly cited anthropologists of his generation—at the time of his death, he had authored or co-authored approximately sixty book and hundreds of articles, essays, and book chapters. He was recognized for his remarkable success in bringing an anthropological perspective to a broader, non-academic audience. In Norway, Hylland Eriksen was a well-known public intellectual whose advocacy of diversity and cultural pluralism 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 academia and beyond, Hylland Eriksen was highly decorated for his scholarship. He was 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 was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.

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