# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/unni-wikan
# Generated: 2026-09-01T00:28:06.662Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/unni-wikan"
name: "Unni Wikan"
slug: "unni-wikan"
description: "Unni Wikan 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); and 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)."
tagline: "Norwegian anthropologist"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Norway"
  isoCode: "NO"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1944-11-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           38.89
  momentum:             4.777517564402809
  historical:           4.871274666666667
  currentAttention:     23.8095238095238
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unni_Wikan"
    title: "Unni Wikan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unni_Wikan"
    title: "Unni Wikan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%89_%D9%88%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "انى ويكان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Unni_Wikan"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%88%D6%82%D5%B6%D5%B6%D5%AB_%D5%8E%D5%AB%D5%AF%D5%A1%D5%B6"
    title: "Ուննի Վիկան"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unni_Wikan"
    title: "Unni Wikan"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6979704"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump