Gunnar Landtman

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Gunnar Landtman in British New Guinea .

Gunnar Landtman (born May 6, 1878 in Helsinki , † October 30, 1940 ibid) was a Finnish ethnologist , philosopher , sociologist and anthropologist . He was a student of Edward Westermarck .

Life

Grave of Gunnar Landtman in the Hietaniemi Cemetery in Helsinki

1910-1912 he ran fieldwork in British New Guinea , where he discussed the Kiwai - Papua worked. Like Paul Wirz later with the Marind-anim in South New Guinea, he succeeded in capturing the last traces of a rapidly changing world of the indigenous people in the Kiwai district of British New Guinea. His ethnological oeuvre had a major influence on the late work La mythologie primitive by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl .

His major international work on the inequality of social classes was first published in London in 1938.

Works

  • The origin of priesthood. Helsingfors, Ekenäs 1905 (Diss.)
  • Papualaists parissa: oleskelultani Uuden Guinean alkuasukkaiden keskuudessa (1914)
  • Folktales of the Kiwai Papuans. Acta societatis scientiarum fennicae, XLVII (1917)
  • Finlands väg till oavhangighet (1919)
  • Finlands svenska folkdiktning 7.1: Övernaturliga väsen, 1919
  • Johdatus filosofiseen ajatteluun (Inledning till det filosofiska tänkandet, 1920)
  • Immanuel Kant: hans liv och filosofi (1922)
  • Naturfolkens diktning och dess betydelse (1925)
  • Finlands svenska folkdiktning 7.2: Växtlighetsriter, 1925
  • Finlands svenska folkdiktning 7, 1927
  • The Kiwai Papuans of British New Guinea: A nature-born instance of Rousseau's ideal community, London, Macmillan 1927
  • Satumaa ja sen asukkaat: Kiwai-papualaiset Uuden-Guinean jättiläissaarella (1932)
  • Ett sagoland och dess infödingar: Kiwai-Papuanerna pa Söderhavets tropiska jätteö. Nature and culture 1931
  • Ethnographical collection from the Kiwai district of British New-Guinea in the National Museum of Finland, Helsingfors (Helsinki). A descriptive survey of the material culture of the Kiwai people. Helsingfors (Helsinki) 1933
  • "The origins of sacrifice as illustrated by a primitive", in: Essays presented to CG Seligman (1934)
  • Det rättas värde (1937)
  • The origin of the inequality of the social classes (1938)
  • Students under Finlands kampår 1898–1909, Helsingfors, Mercator 1940
  • It. Westermarck: Minnestal vid Finska Vetenskaps-Societenens sammanträde October 21, 1940, Helsingfors 1940

literature

  • Heli Lahdentausta, Marjatta Parpola, Pilvi Vainonen and Pirjo Varjola (eds.): Satumaa ja sen asukkaat - Gunnar Landtman Papua-Uudessa-Guineassa 1910-1912, Paradise and the People Who Lived There - Gunnar Landtman in Papua New Guinea 1910-1912 . Helsinki, Museovirasto; ISBN 951-616-068-9 (exhibition catalog)
  • David Lawrence and Pirjo Varjola: Gunnar Landtman in Papua: 1910 to 1912 . ANU Press, Canberra 2010, ISBN 9781921666124 .

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personal data
SURNAME Landtman, Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish ethnologist, philosopher, sociologist and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH May 6, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Helsinki
DATE OF DEATH October 30, 1940
Place of death Helsinki