Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Thomas Hylland Eriksen was born on Feb 06, 1962 in Norway. Thomas Hylland Eriksen's big-screen debut came with Thomas Hylland Eriksen og historien om origamijenta directed by Dag Johan Haugerud in 2005, strarring Sosialantropolog.

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 trying to write about rubbish, globalisation and flexibility.