Unni Wikan facts for kids

Unni Wikan (born 18 November 1944) is professor of social anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. She has served as visiting professor at the University of Chicago (2011), Harvard University (1999–2000), Goethe University, Frankfurt (2000), London School of Economics (1997), École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris (1996). She has also been a visiting scholar at Harvard University (1995), guest lecturer at Harvard (1987), guest lecturer at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (1983) and visiting assistant professor at Johns Hopkins University (1977).

Writings

• Life Among the Poor in Cairo (Tavistock 1980) ISBN: 978-0-422-76980-8
• Behind the Veil in Arabia: Women in Oman (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982; paperback, Univ. of Chicago Press, 1991) ISBN: 978-0-226-89683-0
• Managing Turbulent Hearts: A Balinese Formula for Living (University of Chicago Press, 1990) ISBN: 978-0-226-89680-9
• Mot en ny norsk underklasse: Innvandrere, kultur og integrasjon (Gyldendal, 1995) ISBN: 978-82-05-23509-0
• Tomorrow, God Willing: Self-Made Destinies in Cairo (University of Chicago Press, 1996) ISBN: 978-0-226-89835-3
• Generous Betrayal: Politics of Culture in the New Europe (University of Chicago Press, 2002) ISBN: 978-0-226-89685-4
• For ærens skyld - Fadime til ettertanke (Scandinavian University Press, 2003)
• Medmennesker: 35 år i Kairos bakgater (Pax, 2004) 9788253027388
• "Om ære." (Pax, 2008) ISBN: 978-82-530-3096-8
• In Honor of Fadime: Murder and Shame (University of Chicago Press, 2008) ISBN: 978-0-226-89686-1 Read an excerpt.
• "Resonance: Beyond the Words" (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming November 2012)