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.
Highlights
In Norway many social anthropologists have conducted research on small local communities in the country (e.g. Rudie, 1962; Brox, 1966; Bringslid, 1990)
One social anthropologist has during most of his academic career been concerned with studying the Norwegian society in its totality
He came from a small local community and had never been to the capital of Oslo before he came there as a student. He maintains that in modern society with its enormous speed of change, a life course, like his own, may be experienced like a series of cultural collisions. In his autobiography he reflects about his own life course, from a working-class, puritan and fundamentalist religious childhood background, he has moved to a top academic position in social anthropology
Summary
Received November 6th, 2013; revised December 6th, 2013; accepted December 14th, 2013. In this book he writes that his own life from 16 to 25 years of age seemed to be a stronger collision of culture than his first meeting with an Indian village when he was 33 years old He came from a small local community and had never been to the capital of Oslo before he came there as a student. He maintains that in modern society with its enormous speed of change, a life course, like his own, may be experienced like a series of cultural collisions. She starts from the point of view of everyday life and individual biographies
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