Editorial: A half-century of Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: Time for (another) evaluation

Abstract

In February 1967 eleven Scandinavian scholars participated in a four-day symposium held in the Hotel Norge in Bergen, organized by Fredrik Barth. The outcome of this meeting was a volume published two years later that included seven adapted papers from the symposium, complemented by an introduction by Barth as editor. At the time of its publication, none of the contributors could anticipate how successful it would become.