Author · Papua New Guinea
Gunnar Landtman
Died in 1940
Gunnar Landtman was born in 1878 into a Swedish-speaking family of Helsinki; his father sat on the board of the Bank of Finland. He took his doctorate in 1905 with a thesis on the origin of the priesthood, left in 1910 for Papua, and lived for two years among the Kiwai, notably in the village of Ipisia, on Kiwai Island. Back in Helsinki, he taught sociology there, as professor from 1927, sat briefly in the Diet for the Swedish party, and died in 1940.
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- TaleThe Folk-Tales of the Kiwai PapuansGunnar Landtman · 1917Literature