Gunnar Landtman
| Dr Gunnar Landtman | |||||
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| Born | 1878 | ||||
| Died | 1940 | ||||
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Kenmare [Kenmore] House, Cambridge 13 Annegatan-Helsingfors [1926] | ||||
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proposed by A.C. Haddon, seconded by T.A. Joyce 1912.12.04 [A63]
nominated 27 Apr. 1926; proposed by E.N. Fallaize, seconded by H.J.E. Peake, elected 23 June [A63]
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Gunnar Landtman (6 May 1878, Helsinki – 30 October 1940, Helsinki) was a Finnish philosopher as well as a sociology and philosophy professor. A pupil of Edvard Westermarck, he graduated from the University of Helsinki in 1905. He later became an associate professor there from 1910 to 1927 and then a temporary professor until his death in 1940. Landtman was the first modern sociological anthropologist. His most important journey was a two-year trip to Papua New Guinea where he lived with the Kiwai Papuans from 1910 to 1912. He was from 1922 to 1924 a member of the Parliament of Finland, where he represented the Swedish People's Party of Finland (SFP).
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The Origin of Priesthood (1905)
The Primary Causes of Social Inequality (1909) Wanderings of the Dead in the Folk-Lore of the Kiwai-speaking Papuans (1912)
The Poetry of the Kiwai Papuans (1913)
The folk-tales of the Kiwai Papuans (1917)
The Pidgin English of British New Guinea (1918)
Papuan Magic in the Building of Houses (1920) The Kiwai Papuans of British New Guinea: A Nature-born Instance of Rousseau's Ideal Community (1927)
A Descriptive Survey of the Material Culture of the Kiwai People (1937)
The Origin of the Inequality of the Social Classes (1938)
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