Jeremy Boissevain
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Jeremy Fergus Boissevain (5 August 1928 – 26 June 2015) was a
Social Anthropology at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research, University of Amsterdam
.
Academic background
Boissevain was awarded his PhD in 1962 from the
Montreal, Sussex, Malta, New York (Stony Brook), Massachusetts (Amherst), Columbia University and the Jagiellonian University in Kraków.[citation needed
]
History
Boissevain first came to Malta in September 1961, and wrote his doctoral thesis – later published as "Saints and Fireworks – Religion and Politics in Rural Malta" – in the summer of 1962.[citation needed]
Bibliography
- Saints and Fireworks: Religion and Politics in Rural Malta (1965, 1993)
- Hal Kirkop: A Village in Malta (1969)
- The Italians of Montreal (1970)
- Network Analysis (editor, 1973)
- Friends of Friends: Networks, Manipulators and Coalitions (1974)
- Beyond the Community (editor, 1975)
- Ethnic Challenge (editor, 1984)
- Dutch Dilemmas: Anthropologists Look at the Netherlands (editor, 1989)
- Revitalizing European Rituals (editor, 1992)
- Coping with Tourists: European Reactions to Mass Tourism (1996)
- Factions, Friends and Feasts: Anthropological Perspectives on the Mediterranean (2013)
See also
External links
- Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 6 July 1983 (video)
- Website of the Amsterdam School for Social science Research, where Boissevain worked
- Jeremy Boissevain, anthropologist who made Malta home, dies