Thomas Hylland Eriksen vs. Brian Campbell Vickery
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Thomas Hylland Eriksen
1962 – 2024
Geir Thomas Hylland Eriksen 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.
"It must be added that many anthropologists are satisfied with one or two periods of fieldwork, that not all field studies last for a year or more, and that ther…"
Brian Campbell Vickery
1918 – 2009
Brian Campbell Vickery was a British information scientist and classification researcher, and Professor and director at the School of Library, Archive and Information Studies at University College London from 1973 to 1983.
"History presents a series of cultural epochs. Each is a span of years within which knowledge presents a more or less unified structure which can be expressed in…"
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