Jan Brøgger

Jan Christian Brøgger (born January 13 1936 in Paris, France, died February 28 2006 in Oslo, Norway) was a Norwegian professor of social anthropology and a clinical psychologist. He was one of the most well-known Norwegian academics of his generation.

He first worked together with the internationally more notable Fredrik Barth at the University of Bergen. Brøgger later travelled to Cornell University where he studied under Victor Turner. He received his PhD in 1970 at the University of Oslo. From 1969 to 1974 he was curator at the Ethnographic museum of Oslo. Jan Brøgger became full professor in social anthropology at the University of Trondheim (later NTNU) in 1975, a position he held until he died in 2006. He was also dean of studies at the Faculty of humanities at NTNU. He did fieldwork in Italy, Ethiopia, the Sudan, Portugal, and Malaysia.

Jan Brøgger was probably most known as an active participant in the Norwegian public sphere for several decades. He was a popular lecturer and regular columnist in national newspapers. His initial notability was due to his strongly anti-Communist/anti-radical stance in a university environment where this was unconventional, with several books (in Norwegian only ref|frihetensbanemenn) published. Brøgger also published on a variety of topics.

elected publications

*cite book
last = Aspen
first = Harald
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coauthors = Carla Dahl-Jørgensen, Bjørn Erring and Anne K. Larsen
title = The Family : anthropological approaches : festschrift to professor Jan Brøgger
publisher = Tapir
year = 1995
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isbn = 82-519-1215-6
*cite book
last = Brøgger
first = Jan
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title = Nazaré : women and men in a prebureaucratic Portuguese fishing village
publisher = Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publ.
year = 1992
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url = http://openurl.bibsys.no/openurl?isbn=0-03-043382-7
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isbn = 0-03-043382-7
*cite book
last = Brøgger
first = Jan
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title = Belief and experience among the Sidamo : a case study towards an anthropology of knowledge
publisher = Norwegian University Press
year = 1986
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url = http://openurl.bibsys.no/openurl?isbn=82-00-07710-1
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isbn = 82-00-07710-1
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last = Brøgger
first = Jan
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title = Montevarese. A study of peasant society and culture in Southern Italy
publisher = Scandinavian university books
year = 1971
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*cite book
last = Brøgger
first = Jan
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title = Frihetens banemenn ('Executioners of liberty')
publisher = Cappelen
year = 1971
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url = http://openurl.bibsys.no/openurl?isbn=8202037662
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isbn = 8202037662