Jeremy Fergus Boissevain (August 5, 1928 – June 26, 2015) was a

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. He was Emeritus Professor of

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at the Amsterdam School for Social Science Research,

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Academic background

Boissevain was awarded his PhD in 1962 from the

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. He was professor of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam continually from 1966 to 1993, and also taught at the Universities of

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, New York (Stony Brook), Massachusetts (Amherst),

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and the

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in Cracow.

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.

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)

External links

Interviewed by Alan Macfarlane 6th July 1983 (video)Website of the Amsterdam School for Social science Research, where Boissevain worked Jeremy Boissevain, anthropologist who made Malta home, dies
1928 births 2015 deaths Dutch anthropologists English anthropologists University of Amsterdam faculty Alumni of the London School of Economics Scientists from London {{anthropologist-stub

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