Thomas Hylland-Eriksen

Cand. polit. UiO 1987, dr. polit. UiO 1991

Postions held: Research Fellow UiO 1989-90; Researcher at the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO) 1990-91; Associate Professor UiO 1991-95, Professor 1995-. Editor of Samtiden 1993-2001, EASA Newsletter 1992-4, Norsk anthropologisk tidsskrift (Norwegian anthropological magazine) 1993-97.

Professor Thoamas Hylland-Eriksen has worked for years with the politics of identity, ethnicity, nationalism and globalisation from a comparative perspective, often with an ethnographic focus on Mauritius and Trinidad. He has also published popular scientific works and essays on cultural complexity in Norway, either with a focus on norwegians or the multi-ethnic character of contemporary Norway. In recent years, he has published, inter alia, a book about Charles Darwin (N), a co-written book about selfishness (N), a co-written history of anthropology (E/N), a study of time and information technology (E/N), a book about the West and Islam after 11 September (N), an edited volume about globalisation and methodology (E), and a very short introduction to social anthropology (N). He is currently writing about rubbish, globalisation and flexibility.

His main Areas of research are: Nationalism, ethnicity, tribalism, (multi)cultural identity, creolisation, globalisation, minorities, Norwegian identity, cultural change, evolutionary theory, waste

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