Kleivan, Helge (1924–1983)
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Norwegian anthropologist; student under Barth. Fieldwork among Canadian and Greenland Inuit. In 1968, founded the International Work-Group for Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA) in Copenhagen, which has later become one of the most prominent organizations in the world working for the rights of Fourth World peoples.


See IWGIA's homepage, at:
http://www.iwgia.org/