Thomas Hylland Eriksen is Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Oslo, Norway. He has conducted research on the politics of identity for over three decades, and among his publications in the field are Us and Them in Modern Societies, Ethnicity and Nationalism: Anthropological Perspectives and Globalization: The Key Concepts, Paradoxes of Cultural Recognition and Fredrik Barth: An Intellectual Biography.

Marek Jakoubek is the Head of the Department of Ethnology at Charles University, Prague. His professional interests are in the theory of ethnicity and epistemology of social anthropology. He has conducted fieldwork in Voyvodovo, the former Czech village in Bulgaria, and in Roma settlements in eastern Slovakia.

1. Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Marek Jakoubek: Introduction: Ethnic groups, boundaries and beyond

2. A. P. Cohen: Barth, Ethnicity and Culture

3. Michael Hechter: Homage to Fredrik Barth

4. Katherine Verdery: The Dangerous Shoals of Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: A Personal Account

5. Ulf Hannerz: Winners, Losers and Ethnic Flux

6. Judith Okely: Untangling Gypsy Ethnic Identity, Thanks to Barth

7. Michael Herzfeld: Boundaries, Embarrassments and Social Injustice: Fredrik Barth and the Nation-State

8. Valery Tishkov: From Ethnos to Ethnicity and Back

9. Jeremy MacClancy: Barth and Brexit, online, on target

10. Steven Vertovec: Fredrik Barth and the social organization of difference

11. Pnina Werbner: Intersectionality and Situationalism: Towards a (more) dynamic interpretation of Ethnic groups and boundaries

12. Thomas Hylland Eriksen: Beyond a boundary: Flows and mixing in the Creole world

13. Rogers Brubaker: The social organization and political contestation of cultural difference: Thinking comparatively about religion and language

14. Marek Jakoubek: A "Hollow" Legacy of Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: A critique of the reading and quoting "Barth 1969"

15. Marek Jakoubek and Lenka Budilova: Fredrik Barth and the study of ethnicity: reflections on ethnic identity in a world of global political, economic and cultural changes. Interview with Professor Emeritus Gunnar Haaland

Ethnic Groups and Boundaries Today demonstrates the enduring significance of Barth's work, identifying its shortcomings and showcasing the state of the art today, fifty years after the publication of the ground-breaking original.