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Applied Social Anthropology in the Researcher’s Own Society
University of Agder, Kristiansand, Norway
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Advances in Applied Sociology·Volume 04 (2014)·Pages 53–58·Published 6 February 2014·DOI10.4236/aasoci.2014.42009
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Abstract
Professor Arne Martin Klausen (1927-) is the only social anthropologist in Norway who has tried to analyse the culture of the country as a whole. In doing this, he has explored several central themes of the country’s culture; like egalitarianism, the class journey, the strong tradition for development aid to poor countries, connected to a so-called humanitarian super-power which in its turn was an extension of Christian mission, the very wide-spread newspaper reading; however self-centered to national and local issues and finally, the collision between an elitist Olympic culture with Norwegian egalitarianism. Klausen also tried to tie some threads together in editing a collection of essays on Norwegian culture.
KeywordsConfigurations of Norwegian CultureBiography of an AnthropologistBoth Modern and Traditional SocietyCultural Collisions
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