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Harald Tambs-Lyche
Harald Tambs-Lyche (born 1946) is a Norwegian ethnologist and social anthropologist.
Tambs-Lyche earned a doctorate degree from the University of Bergen in 1992 with a doctoral thesis on the research subject of 'religion and society' in the Saurashtra region of India's Gujarat. He worked at the University of Bergen as a lecturer of social anthropology and retired as a professor of ethnology from the University of Picardy Jules Verne. His research interests includes the history of social stratification and the caste system in India.
Harald Tambs-Lyche is married to Marine Carrin.
Tambs-Lyche did his master's in 1972 with the thesis titled "London Patidars" and his Ph.D. in 1992 with the thesis titled "Power and Devotion: Religion and Society in Saurashtra" — both from Norway's University of Bergen — and worked at the university as a lecturer of social anthropology. He is a professor emeritus of ethnology at the University of Picardy Jules Verne in Amiens, France.
Between starting of the 1970s and August 1972, Tambs-Lyche conducted field research on the "life and actions" of Gujarati Patidars living in London who had moved in Britain in the 1960s. He did anatomization of the Patidar's "mercantile ideology" and proffered that it distinguishes these immigrants from the British people and "constitutes the major element in the construction of an ethnic boundary". Fredrik Barth's view on the ethnic groups and boundaries and Barth's "idea of 'choice' and of seeing the 'rules' of society as generative, rather than as static and fixed" significantly shaped his study, though in his study, he went over the "idea of constraint" in larger depths than Barth. Marcus Banks suggests that Tambs-Lyche, along with Sandra Wallman, is amongst the few scholars who have comprehensively worked on the research ideas of Barth. He participated as an associate fellow in the project "History and Theory of the Anthropology of India" which was convened by Peter Berger at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. At the program, he studied "the implications of Barth’s theories of ethnicity for an urban and modern setting".
Tambs-Lyche developed interest in "history and theory of caste" and worked on the subject with a focus on Gujarat's Saurashtra region. He studied "the changing constellations of caste" in the region with regard to the period from 800 CE to the British Raj and in the present-day society "from an interactional point of view". He did research on the goddess cult and Swaminarayan sect in Gujarat and highlighted the socioeconomic changes in the Gujarati society, which according to him, were responsible for the rise in prominence of vegetarian male deities at the expense of the goddess who was associated with "blood and meat". Farhana Ibrahim do not agree with his argument that the increasing tendency towards vegetarianism contributed to the decrease in goddess worship in Gujarat. She reasons that this argument "fails to take into account the fact, that the goddess herself can undergo a transformation" and be "made vegetarian". She gives an example of the goddess Ashapura who became "vegetarian and non-violent" and is worshipped in Gujarat's Kachchh region. Ibrahim notes that Ashapura has, however, "lost her status within the earlier context, where she was the guardian goddess of an independent Kachchh".
He studied "the relations caste identity entertains to ethnicity and class in a situation where all three are salient" in a study on Karnataka's Gaud Saraswat Brahmins. His research on caste highlighted the significance of "conflict, competition and power relations", but because of the influence of Louis Dumont and McKim Marriott on him, also placed emphasis on "the presence of a hierarchizing mode of interaction and discourse".
Tambs-Lyche and Carrin also studied the work of the Scandinavian Christian missionaries among the Santals at the Santhal Parganas in India.
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Harald Tambs-Lyche
Harald Tambs-Lyche (born 1946) is a Norwegian ethnologist and social anthropologist.
Tambs-Lyche earned a doctorate degree from the University of Bergen in 1992 with a doctoral thesis on the research subject of 'religion and society' in the Saurashtra region of India's Gujarat. He worked at the University of Bergen as a lecturer of social anthropology and retired as a professor of ethnology from the University of Picardy Jules Verne. His research interests includes the history of social stratification and the caste system in India.
Harald Tambs-Lyche is married to Marine Carrin.
Tambs-Lyche did his master's in 1972 with the thesis titled "London Patidars" and his Ph.D. in 1992 with the thesis titled "Power and Devotion: Religion and Society in Saurashtra" — both from Norway's University of Bergen — and worked at the university as a lecturer of social anthropology. He is a professor emeritus of ethnology at the University of Picardy Jules Verne in Amiens, France.
Between starting of the 1970s and August 1972, Tambs-Lyche conducted field research on the "life and actions" of Gujarati Patidars living in London who had moved in Britain in the 1960s. He did anatomization of the Patidar's "mercantile ideology" and proffered that it distinguishes these immigrants from the British people and "constitutes the major element in the construction of an ethnic boundary". Fredrik Barth's view on the ethnic groups and boundaries and Barth's "idea of 'choice' and of seeing the 'rules' of society as generative, rather than as static and fixed" significantly shaped his study, though in his study, he went over the "idea of constraint" in larger depths than Barth. Marcus Banks suggests that Tambs-Lyche, along with Sandra Wallman, is amongst the few scholars who have comprehensively worked on the research ideas of Barth. He participated as an associate fellow in the project "History and Theory of the Anthropology of India" which was convened by Peter Berger at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. At the program, he studied "the implications of Barth’s theories of ethnicity for an urban and modern setting".
Tambs-Lyche developed interest in "history and theory of caste" and worked on the subject with a focus on Gujarat's Saurashtra region. He studied "the changing constellations of caste" in the region with regard to the period from 800 CE to the British Raj and in the present-day society "from an interactional point of view". He did research on the goddess cult and Swaminarayan sect in Gujarat and highlighted the socioeconomic changes in the Gujarati society, which according to him, were responsible for the rise in prominence of vegetarian male deities at the expense of the goddess who was associated with "blood and meat". Farhana Ibrahim do not agree with his argument that the increasing tendency towards vegetarianism contributed to the decrease in goddess worship in Gujarat. She reasons that this argument "fails to take into account the fact, that the goddess herself can undergo a transformation" and be "made vegetarian". She gives an example of the goddess Ashapura who became "vegetarian and non-violent" and is worshipped in Gujarat's Kachchh region. Ibrahim notes that Ashapura has, however, "lost her status within the earlier context, where she was the guardian goddess of an independent Kachchh".
He studied "the relations caste identity entertains to ethnicity and class in a situation where all three are salient" in a study on Karnataka's Gaud Saraswat Brahmins. His research on caste highlighted the significance of "conflict, competition and power relations", but because of the influence of Louis Dumont and McKim Marriott on him, also placed emphasis on "the presence of a hierarchizing mode of interaction and discourse".
Tambs-Lyche and Carrin also studied the work of the Scandinavian Christian missionaries among the Santals at the Santhal Parganas in India.