Education
Brøgger later travelled to Cornell University where he studied under Victor Turner. He received his Doctor of Philosophy in 1970 at the University of Oslo.
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January Brogger
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Career
He was one of the most well-known Norwegian academics of his generation. He first worked together with the internationally more notable Fredrik Barth at the University of Bergen. From 1969 to 1974 he was curator at the Ethnographic museum of Oslo.
January Brøgger became full professor in social anthropology at the University of Trondheim (later Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet) in 1975, a position he held until he died in 2006.
He was also dean of studies at the Faculty of humanities at Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet. He did fieldwork in Italy, Ethiopia, the Sudan, Portugal, and Malaysia. January Brøgger was probably most known as an active participant in the Norwegian public sphere for several decades.
He was a popular lecturer and regular columnist in national newspapers. His initial notability was due to his strongly anti-Communist/anti-radical stance in a university environment where this was unconventional, with several books (in Norwegian only ) published.
Brøgger also published on a variety of topics.
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