Benjamin Raphael Teitelbaum (born January 27, 1983) is an American
ethnographer
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and political commentator. An associate professor of
ethnomusicology
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at the
University of Colorado, Boulder
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and former Head of Nordic Studies at the same institution. He is best known for his ethnographic research into
far-right
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groups in Scandinavia and commentary on immigration, and is frequently cited as an expert in Scandinavian and American media.
Books
Teitelbaum is the author of ''Lions of the North: Sounds of the New Nordic Radical Nationalism'' (2017), an ethnographic study of radical nationalists in Scandinavia, as well as ''War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right'' (2020), which explores the role of the
Traditionalism in the thinking of figures like
Steve Bannon
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,
Olavo de Carvalho
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, and
Aleksandr Dugin
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Born into a military intellige ...
.
References
1983 births
Living people
University of Colorado Boulder faculty
American ethnographers
20th-century American Jews
Academics and writers on far-right extremism
21st-century American Jews
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