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... > social science subjects > criminology and criminal justice > criminology > law and society > key people in law and society > Richard Thurnwald
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Richard Thurnwald  

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  • Richard Thurnwald, an understudied AustrianGerman anthropologist and sociologist, was known for his comparative studies of social institutions. He was a pioneer in every sense of the word: the first German language ethnologist to do serious fieldwork (in German New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, and neighboring areas in Melanesia and Micronesia) and the first to collect a great number of artifacts from this area.Thurnwald did path-breaking ethnographical, folkloristic, economic, anthropological, and linguistic research. [Source: Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives; Thurnwald, Richard]

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