Thomas Hylland Eriksen

Thomas Hylland Eriksen (1962) is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo and PI of the ERC Advanced Grant project ‘Overheating’. The author of many books in different genres, his academic research, which began with fieldwork on identity and society in Mauritius in 1986, has largely concerned cultural dynamics and social identities in complex societies. His books in this field include Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives (2010/1993) and Common Denominators: Ethnicity and the Politics of Compromise in Mauritius (1998). He has also published works about globalization, e.g. Globalization: The Key Concepts (2014/2007), as well as basic textbooks in anthropology: Small Places, Large Issues (2014/1995), What is Anthropology? (2017/2004) and a book about public anthropology: Engaging Anthropology (2006). His latest book is an introduction to the anthropology of accelerated change: Overheating (Pluto Press 2016).