Axel Sommerfelt in the history of social anthropology

IF 0.6 2区历史学 Q3 ANTHROPOLOGY

History and Anthropology Pub Date : 2022-02-08 DOI:10.1080/02757206.2022.2034624

T. Eriksen

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Abstract

ABSTRACT An unsung alumnus of the Manchester School, Axel Sommerfelt (b. 1926) published little during his career, but has nevertheless had a major impact on contemporary Norwegian anthropology. Following six years as a lecturer in Salisbury, he taught at the University of Oslo from 1966 until his retirement in 1996. This article traces his intellectual itinerary. Beginning with a re-study of Fortes's Tallensi material, Sommerfelt later carried out fieldwork on inter-ethnic relations in south-western Uganda. He distinguished himself from his Norwegian colleagues through an interest in colonial history, nationalism and structural power which tends to be absent from Fredrik Barth's work. Sommerfelt's teaching and mainly unpublished writings reveal him as a supporter of a strong empiricist programme and a skilled Africanist who would have been a worthy contributor to the Manchester School, had he only published his work.

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阿克塞尔·萨默菲尔在社会人类学的历史上

阿克塞尔·萨默费尔特(Axel Sommerfelt，生于1926年)是曼彻斯特学院的一名默默无闻的校友，在他的职业生涯中几乎没有发表过什么论文，但他对当代挪威人类学产生了重大影响。在索尔兹伯里做了六年讲师之后，他从1966年开始在奥斯陆大学任教，直到1996年退休。这篇文章追溯了他的思想历程。从重新研究福尔特斯的塔伦西材料开始，萨默费尔特后来对乌干达西南部的种族间关系进行了实地调查。他对殖民历史、民族主义和结构性权力的兴趣使他在挪威同行中脱颖而出，而这些在弗雷德里克·巴特的作品中往往是缺失的。萨默菲尔特的教学和主要未发表的著作表明，他是一个强有力的经验主义计划的支持者，也是一个熟练的非洲学家，如果他只发表自己的作品，他将是曼彻斯特学派的一个有价值的贡献者。

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期刊介绍： History and Anthropology continues to address the intersection of history and social sciences, focusing on the interchange between anthropologically-informed history, historically-informed anthropology and the history of ethnographic and anthropological representation. It is now widely perceived that the formerly dominant ahistorical perspectives within anthropology severely restricted interpretation and analysis. Much recent work has therefore been concerned with social change and colonial history and the traditional problems such as symbolism, have been rethought in historical terms. History and Anthropology publishes articles which develop these concerns, and is particularly interested in linking new substantive analyses with critical perspectives on anthropological discourse.