Edvard Westermarck
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Edvard Alexander Westermarck was a Finnish social anthropologist, sociologist and philosopher. He was the most internationally prominent Finnish scholar of his time, known for his work on the history
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Gunnar Landtman
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Gunnar Landtman 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 assoc
Edvard Westermarck
…described Westermarck as the last and most notable representative of the English anthropological school. Among his Finnish students were Rafael Karsten, Gunnar Landtman, Hilma Granqvist and K. Rob. V. Wikman. He also influenced the art theorist Yrjö Hirn and the philosopher Rolf Lagerborg. After World War II, anthropology's…
Gunnar Landtman (to the left) doing fieldwork in Papua New Guinea.