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Thor Heyerdahl

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Norwegian anthropologist and adventurer

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Thor Heyerdahl
Anthropology
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#141
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Ethnography
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#8
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Cultural Anthropology
#43
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#59
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According to Wikipedia, Thor Heyerdahl KStJ was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography. Heyerdahl is notable for his Kon-Tiki expedition in 1947, in which he sailed 8,000 km across the Pacific Ocean in a hand-built raft from South America to the Tuamotu Islands. The expedition was designed to demonstrate that ancient people could have made long sea voyages, creating contacts between societies. This was linked to a diffusionist model of cultural development.

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