Johannes Falkenberg

Johannes Falkenberg
Johannes Falkenberg
Born	April 1, 1911; Oslo, Norway
Died	June 3, 2004 (aged 93); Oslo, Norway
Nationality	Norwegian
Citizenship	Norwegian
	Scientific career
Fields	Social anthropology

Johannes Falkenberg (1 April 1911, in Oslo — June 3, 2004, in Oslo) was a Norwegian social anthropologist.

Falkenberg was linked to the University of Oslos ethnographic museum for most of his life; he was a curator in ethnography since 1953. Falkenberg studied at the University of Oslo and took "Geography with ethnographic" under Professor Ole Solberg. Because of his education, he travelled to inner Laksefjord in 1938, where he examined Sami settlements. That resulted in the dissertation "Settlements along the inner Laksefjord in Finnmark" (1941).

As a reserve officer, he came into captivity in Germany, which, because of a coprisoner from the Australian outback, resulted in a fascination with the indigenous people. As a result, Falkenberg decided that he wanted to do research among the natives in Australia. He became a curator at the ethnographic museum at his homecoming in 1945 and wrote the book Et steinalderfolk i vår tid in 1948. Falkenberg then chose the Murinbata people in Port Keats in North Australia for his field research in 1950. This resulted in a solid study that Claude Lévi-Strauss quoted from.