Marianne Gullestad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Marianne Gullestad

Norwegian anthropologist

Date of Birth: 28-Mar-1946

Place of Birth: Kristiansand, Southern Norway, Norway

Date of Death: 10-Mar-2008

Profession: professor, anthropologist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Marianne Gullestad (28 March 1946 – 10 March 2008) was a Norwegian social anthropologist.
Gullestad grew up in Bergen, took her magister degree in social anthropology from the University of Bergen 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 University of Chicago during three periods in the 1980s and 1990s.
From 1998 she was appointed assistant professor at the University of Tromsø.
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 Norwegian Academy Prize in memory of Thorleif Dahl in 2007.She was married to the linguist Jan Terje Faarlund.