Global Journal of Human Social Science, D: History, Archaeology and Anthroplogy, Volume 23 Issue 3

© 2023. Leif Korsbaek. This research/review article is distributed under the terms of the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). You must give appropriate credit to authors and reference this article if parts of the article are reproduced in any manner. Applicable licensing terms are at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. Gunnar Landtman (1878-1940) By Leif Korsbaek Quite recently I wrote 1 that “A. M. Hocart is a very little known British anthropologist” (Korsbaek, in press), which is true. But if that is so, the British anthropologist Gunnar Landtman, born in Finland, is absolutely unknown, at least in the Spanish speaking world. And that, in spite of the fact that he is of a certain importance, at least in the anthropological universe. It is known that a revolution took place in British anthropology 1922, with the publication of Malinowski´s monograph Argonauts of the Western Pacific and, to a lesser degree, with the publication the same year of Radcliffe-Brown´s Ph. D. thesis The Andaman Islanders . This revolution left us a new canon in anthropology and, especially, in ethnography, and it is usually thought that Malinowski is the sole responsible for this new anthropological canon. GJHSS-D Classification: FOR Code: 160199 GunnarLandtman18781940 Global Journal of HUMAN-SOCIAL SCIENCE: D History, Archaeology & Anthropology Volume 23 Issue 3 Version 1.0 Year 2023 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Online ISSN: 2249-460x & Print ISSN: 0975-587X Strictly as per the compliance and regulations of: Introducción-