Eriksen, Thomas Hylland

1. Entity type Person
2. Birth date 1962
3. Birth place Oslo, Norway
4. Gender Name Male
5. Biographical Data

   1. homas Hylland Eriksen (born February 6, 1962) is a Norwegian anthropologist. He is currently a professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, as well as the 2015-2016 president of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. He is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. Born in Oslo, Eriksen has done fieldwork in Trinidad and Mauritius. and later in Norway and Australia. He is currently doing research on scale and globalisation in the Seychelles. His fields of research include identity, nationalism, globalisation and identity politics. Eriksen finished his dr. polit. degree in 1991, and was made a professor in 1995, at the age of 33. From 1993 to 2001 he was editor of the bimonthly cultural journal Samtiden.