Marianne Gullestad (28 March 1946 – 10 March 2008) was a Norwegian

social anthropologist Social anthropology is the study of patterns of behaviour in human societies and cultures. It is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and much of Europe, where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology. In t ...

. Gullestad grew up in

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

, took her

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social anthropology Social anthropology is the study of patterns of behaviour in human societies and cultures. It is the dominant constituent of anthropology throughout the United Kingdom and much of Europe, where it is distinguished from cultural anthropology. In t ...

from the

University of Bergen The University of Bergen ( no, Universitetet i Bergen, ) is a research-intensive state university located in Bergen, Norway. As of 2019, the university has over 4,000 employees and 18,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 194 ...

in 1975 and her dr. philos. in 1984. Her thesis from 1984, ''Kitchen table society'', treated the life of young working-class mothers. She was appointed guest lecturer at the

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during three periods in the 1980s and 1990s. From 1998 she was appointed assistant professor at the

University of Tromsø The University of Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway (Norwegian: ''Universitetet i Tromsø – Norges arktiske universitet''; Northern Sami: ''Romssa universitehta – Norgga árktalaš universitehta'') is a state university in Norway an ...

. Gullestad frequently appeared in television and radio, and wrote hundreds of newspaper articles. She was awarded Eilert Sundt's Research Prize in 1989, and the

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in 2007. She was married to the linguist

Jan Terje Faarlund Jan Terje Faarlund (born 3 May 1943) is a Norwegian linguist and professor emeritus of North Germanic languages at the University of Oslo.

.Norsk biografisk leksikon: Marianne Gullestad

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1946 births 2008 deaths People from Kristiansand Norwegian anthropologists Norwegian women anthropologists University of Bergen alumni University of Chicago faculty Academic staff of the University of Tromsø Norwegian women academics 20th-century anthropologists {{Norway-academic-bio-stub