Gunnar Landtman

Gunnar Landtman (1878-1940) 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 antropologist. His most important journey was a two-year trip to Papua New Guinea where he lived with the Kiwai Papuans from 1910 to 1912.

Bibliography

• 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)

Sources

This article incorporates information from the revision as of 2008-09-24 of the equivalent article on the Finnish Wikipedia.

• http://www2.hs.fi/english/archive/news.asp?id=20010410IE5
• http://epress.anu.edu.au/gunnar_citation.html