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Seidemann, Ryan M. "Thor Heyerdahl 1914-2002." Norsk Geografisk Tidsskrift - Norwegian Journal of Geography 57, no. 1 (January 2003): 63–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00291950310000901.

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Witoszek, Nina. "The World after Thor Heyerdahl: Challenges to Archaeology in the Twenty-First Century." European Journal of Archaeology 15, no. 1 (2012): 146–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/1461957112y.0000000002.

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Archaeology has been traditionally looked at as a science which reconstructs human history and evolution through the study of material objects. This contribution revisits archaeology as a discipline which revives national pasts, and thus partakes in generating myths of roots and identity. In the world ‘after Thor Heyerdahl' – plunged in environmental crisis and haunted by economic collapse of many communities – the hunger for these myths is bound to intensify. I argue that today, especially, there is a need for archaeology in ‘Thor Heyerdahls' ’ sense: one which would illuminate the unity of mankind and emphasize the imperative of reclaiming nature as human habitat.
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Laake, Jon. "Thor Heyerdahl tok helt feil." Tidsskrift for Den norske legeforening 130, no. 13 (2010): 1328. http://dx.doi.org/10.4045/tidsskr.10.0589.

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Virapyan, Ed G. ,. "Cultural experiences with narratives." Voprosy kul'turologii (Issues of Cultural Studies), no. 6 (June 30, 2022): 508–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.33920/nik-01-2206-05.

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Hegel (philosophy of Freemasonry). VELIMIR KHLEBNIKOV (to a stranger in 2022). JERZY KAWALEROVICH (farewell to Poland). PATRIK SUSKIND (German insomnia, farce). SAADI (Nasreddin's smile). Thor Heyerdahl (Easter Island cryptography). SIGN FROM CONSTANTINOPOLE (without statute of limitations). PERFECT FORNICATION.
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Jenna Coughlin. "Trouble in Paradise: Revising Identity in Two Texts by Thor Heyerdahl." Scandinavian Studies 88, no. 3 (2016): 246. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/scanstud.88.3.0246.

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Magelssen, Scott. "White-Skinned Gods: Thor Heyerdahl, the Kon-Tiki Museum, and the Racial Theory of Polynesian Origins." TDR/The Drama Review 60, no. 1 (March 2016): 25–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/dram_a_00522.

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Thor Heyerdahl’s 1947 performative experiment, to sail a raft from Peru to Polynesia, was lauded as a feat of ingenuity and endurance. Largely undertreated is the racially motivated theory undergirding Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki project—that the first settlers in Polynesia were a race of bearded, white-skinned supermen who remained deities in both South American and Polynesian mythology. Contemporary commemorations, however, emphasize feel-good stories of human achievement over Heyerdahl’s racist performance.
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Solsvik, Reidar. "Correspondence between Thor Heyerdahl and Max Puelma Bunster concerning Rapanui Manuscript E." Rapa Nui Journal 30, no. 2 (2016): 85–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/rnj.2016.0022.

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Sokolova, Elena, Maxwell C. Day, Frank C. Hawthorne, and Roy Kristiansen. "Heyerdahlite, Na3Mn7Ti2(Si4O12)2O2(OH)4F(H2O)2, a new mineral of the astrophyllite supergroup from the Larvik Plutonic complex, Norway: Description and crystal structure." Mineralogical Magazine 82, no. 2 (February 28, 2018): 243–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1180/minmag.2017.081.051.

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ABSTRACTHeyerdahlite, ideally Na3Mn7Ti2(Si4O12)2O2(OH)4F(H2O)2, is a new astrophyllite-supergroup mineral from the Larvik Plutonic complex, Norway. Heyerdahlite was found in a nepheline-syenite pegmatite with albite, aegirine, hastingsite/magnesio-hastingsite, kupletskite, lorenzenite and pyrophanite. Heyerdahlite is colourless to pale brown, transparent and has a vitreous lustre. Mohs hardness is 3, Dcalc. = 3.245 g/cm3. Heyerdahlite is biaxial (+), α = 1.694(2), β = 1.710(5), γ = 1.730(5), 2Vmeas. = 80(4)° and 2Vcalc. = 84.5°. Cleavage is perfect parallel to {001}. The empirical formula based on 32.18 (O + F) apfu is (Na1.18K0.68Rb0.12Cs0.01Pb0.01)Σ2Na1.00(Mn6.29Zn0.23Mg0.07Zr0.04${\rm Fe}_{{\rm 0}{\rm. 03}}^{{\rm 2 +}} $Ca0.01Na0.34)Σ7.01(Ti1.78Nb0.17 Mg0.03Zr0.02)Σ2(Si8.03O24)O2[(OH)3.92F0.08]Σ4F1.00[(H2O)1.18□0.82]Σ2, for Z = 1. Heyerdahlite is triclinic, space group P$\bar 1$, a = 5.392(2), b = 11.968(4), c = 11.868(4) Å, α = 112.743(8), β = 94.816(7), γ = 103.037(8)° and V = 675.6(7) Å3. The crystal structure was refined to R1 = 4.44% for 3577 unique (Fo > 4σF) reflections. In the crystal structure of heyerdahlite, there are four [4]T sites occupied by Si. The [6]D site is occupied mainly by Ti. The T4O12 astrophyllite ribbons composed of SiO4 tetrahedra and D octahedra constitute the H (Heteropolyhedral) sheet. In the O (Octahedral) sheet, there are four Mn-dominant [6]M(1–4) sites. Two H sheets and one central O sheet form the HOH block, and adjacent HOH blocks link via a common ${\rm X}_{\rm D}^{\rm P} $ anion of the two D octahedra. In the I (Intermediate) block between HOH blocks, there are two interstitial cation sites, A and B, and a WA site, partly occupied by H2O. The A site splits into two sites, [12]A(1) and [6]A(2), partly occupied by K and Na, respectively, with A(1)–A(2) = 0.754 Å. The aggregate content of the A site is ideally Na2 apfu. The [10]B site is occupied by Na. The WA site is ideally occupied by (H2O)2 pfu. The mineral is named after the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl (1914–2002), who was born in Larvik.
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Thomason, Sarah G., and W. Wilfried Schuhmacher. "The Linguistic Aspect of Thor Heyerdahl's Theory." Language 66, no. 1 (March 1990): 208. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/415324.

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Klymyshyn, A. M. Ulana. "Pyramids of Tucume: The Quest for Peru's Forgotten City. Thor Heyerdahl, Daniel Sandweiss, and Alfredo Narvaez. Thames and Hudson, New York, 1995. 240 pp., 43 color figures, 23 black and white figures, 5 maps, 4 tables, notes, bibliography. $29.95 (cloth)." Latin American Antiquity 8, no. 3 (September 1997): 279–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/971660.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Heyerdahl, Thor"

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ANDERSSON, Axel. "Kon-Tiki and the postwar journey of discovery." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1814/10417.

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Defence date: 27 October 2007
Examining Board: Prof. Victoria de Grazia, (Columbia University/European University Institute) ; Prof. Bo Stråth, (European University Institute) ; Prof. Reinhold Wagnleitner, (University of Salzburg) ; Prof. Frank Mort, (University of Manchester)
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A Hero for the Atomic Age tells the story of how Heyerdahl organized an expedition to sail a balsa raft from Callao in Peru to the Tuamotu Islands in French Polynesia, and explains how he turned this physical crossing into an epic narrative that became imbued with a universal appeal. The book also addresses, for the first time, the problematic nature of Heyerdahl's theory that a white culture-bearing race had initiated all the world's great civilizations.
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Melander, Victor. "The Coming of the White Bearded Men: The Origin and development of Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki Theory." Phd thesis, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/1885/202135.

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From the late 1930s to his death in 2002, the Norwegian adventurer Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) relentlessly sought scientific acceptance for his controversial Kon-Tiki Theory. The theory separated the settlement of the Pacific into two different migrating races: the transatlantic culture bearers or white bearded men; and the originally Asiatic warrior race, the Maori-Polynesians. To date very little scholarly attention has been devoted to what influenced Heyerdahl to develop the intensely debated theory. Heyerdahl himself claimed that the theory came to him as an epiphany through encounters during his first journey to Polynesia in 1937. The aim of this thesis is to analyse the origin and development of Heyerdahl's theory by focusing on his 1937 journey to Polynesia. This will be done particularly by targeting three distinguishable tropes of ethnographic travel writing detectable in Heyerdahl's own narration of the theory's origin. These include: Heyerdahl's contrasting of the omniscient traveller and the armchair scientist; the connection he drew between a white race and advanced culture; and his emphasis on being there as the only means to extract knowledge. In Heyerdahl's writing the latter trope also includes a second level which stressed the need to be there not only physically but mentally by performing primitivism. A central aim of this thesis is also to deconstruct Heyerdahl's autobiography, to extract original chronologies and intentions masked by later improvements from secondary contexts and intentions. In addition to published sources, the thesis source material consists of archival material such as field-journals, letters and manuscripts. Through these sources the origin and the development of the theory will be analysed from the mid-1930s up until its final publication in 1952. The analysis will focus on the influence Norwegian scientific tradition and Heyerdahl's student years at Oslo University had on the theory. It will also focus on Heyerdahl's knowledge and perceptions of Polynesia prior to his Polynesian journey, and how these perceptions altered when he encountered the real Polynesia. Further, the influence on the theory of Heyerdahl's discovery of material culture and archaeological sites in Polynesia will be considered, as well as how meetings and readings in Europe and North America in the period 1938-1952 influenced the development of the theory. This thesis concludes that Heyerdahl's theory originated in the contrast between his pre-journey vision of humanity's natural state and the Polynesia he encountered. This contrast sparked a racist interpretation of Polynesian prehistory, where the Polynesian people were detached from their own prehistory and replaced by a more advanced race. Heyerdahl further defined the origin of this race as the transatlantic white bearded men, through actively choosing to ignore research literature in favour of amateur studies and adventure stories when he developed the theory in Norway and the US. Heyerdahl sought acceptance of the theory by polarising his own knowledge achieved from being there against that of an outdated image of the scientist and scientific institutions, and finally by developing his own fields of specialisation by creating and performing various experiments without attachment to empirical material.
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Books on the topic "Heyerdahl, Thor"

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Malam, John. Thor Heyerdahl. Minneapolis: Carolrhoda Books, 1999.

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Evensberget, Snorre. Thor Heyerdahl: The explorer. Oslo, Norway: J.M. Stenersens Forlag A/S, 1994.

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Ralling, Christopher. Thor Heyerdahl: Eventyret og livsverket. Oslo: Gyldendal norsk forlag, 1989.

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Kvam, Ragnar. Thor Heyerdahl: Mannen og havet. [Oslo]: Gyldendal, 2005.

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Thor Heyerdahl: Mannen og verden. [Oslo]: Gyldendal, 2008.

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Thor, Heyerdahl, ed. The Kon-Tiki man: Thor Heyerdahl. London: BBC Books, 1990.

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Thyvold, Hans Olav. Thor Heyerdahl: Explorer, scientist and adventurer. Oslo]: Font Forl., 2014.

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Philip, Steele. Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki voyage. Winchester: Zoe Books, 1993.

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Philip, Steele. Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki voyage. New York: Dillon, 1993.

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Hjeltnes, Arne. Thor Heyerdahl og papirbåten som forandret verden. [Oslo]: Kagge, 1999.

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Podbregar, Nadja, and Dieter Lohmann. "Thor Heyerdahl - Ernsthafter Naturforscher oder Enfant Terrible der Wissenschaft?" In Im Fokus: Entdecker, 211–23. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24337-0_14.

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Bigelow, Benjamin. "The Cinematic Kon-Tiki Expeditions: Realism, Spectacle, and the Migration of Nordic Cinema." In Nordic Film Cultures and Cinemas of Elsewhere, 378–85. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474438056.003.0029.

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This chapter investigates cinematic strategies used to depict Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon-Tiki expedition of 1947 on screen. The critical discourse surrounding Heyerdahl’s 1950 documentary film has centered on the ontology of its images, which film history’s most influential theorist of realism, André Bazin, famously praised in Kon-Tiki. Despite Bazin’s enthusiasm, both expedition and documentary were highly mediated and staged promotional events from the beginning. The only reason a film could be cobbled together at all from the waterlogged 16mm film that Heyerdahl brought home with him was because of the intervention of a Swedish film technician who resized and repaired the badly damaged sequences. In 2013, Norwegian directors Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg turned to Heyerdahl’s expedition for their own film. In their take, the sedate source material of the documentary has given way to spectacular visual effects and scenes of peril on the high seas. All the absent scenes of danger in the original take center stage in the latter film. Subtext has become text, as Rønning and Sandberg transform the source material into cinematic spectacle.
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"Thor Heyerdahl and the Theory of the Archaeological Raft." In Adventures in Archaeology, 101–15. University Press of Florida, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvx07375.11.

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Laine, Kimmo. "Sibelius and the Re-emergence of the Great Man Biopic." In Nordic Genre Film, 21–32. Edinburgh University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748693184.003.0002.

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The aim of this chapter is to consider Sibelius as a popular historical narrative, discussing it in relation to the mechanisms of historical explanation as well as the mode of argument and address used in the film. As reference points I shall discuss certain other Nordic biopics made during the last few years. Biopic seems to be one of the prominent genres in Scandinavia in the 2000s. Monica Z (2013), for example, has been a huge success in Sweden, and Kon-Tiki (2012) – on the Norwegian explorer Thor Heyerdahl – broke into international markets and became a Norwegian Academy Award nominee. As a genre, biopic seems to be both culturally specific and universal at the same time. While addressing a predominantly national audience, Sibelius also shares many, if not most, of the generic characteristics analysed by George F. Custen (1992) in his classic study of the genre, even if Custen is talking about Hollywood films. And indeed, Hollywood has also produced countless biopics about non-Americans, including Scandinavians like the author Hans Christian Andersen (1952) or the composer Edvard Grieg (Song of Norway, 1970).
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Solsvik, Reidar. "Thor Heyerdahl and the Kon-Tiki Museum’s research in the Marquesas and on Rapa Nui/Easter Island, 1955–63." In Uncovering Pacific Pasts: Histories of Archaeology in Oceania, 459–68. ANU Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/upp.2021.29.

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Klok, Janke. "Greta Baars-Jelgersma, 1911-2014." In Vertalerslexicon voor het Nederlandstalig gebied. University of Groningen, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.33612/lex.602a747fa1012.

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Greta Baars-Jelgersma schreef vanaf het midden van de jaren 1930 een veelzijdig en maatschappelijk geëngageerd vertaaloeuvre op haar naam van literaire en non-fictie werken uit Scandinavië, die later vaak klassiekers zijn geworden in het land van herkomst.1 Dat zij een breed scala aan Nederlandse uitgevers voor haar auteurs wist te interesseren, zegt zowel iets over de ontvankelijkheid in de jaren dertig van deze uitgevers voor vernieuwende literatuur uit Denemarken, IJsland, Noorwegen en Zweden als over het literaire netwerk dat Baars-Jelgersma om zich heen wist te weven. Een netwerk dat ze op eigen kracht opbouwde; Baars-Jelgersma was een selfmade woman en autodidact op het gebied van de Scandinavische talen en literaturen. In Scandinavië lag het zwaartepunt van haar netwerk in Noorwegen. Zo vertaalde ze in het interbellum werk van de progressieve journalist Odd Hølaas (1898-1968) die in de jaren dertig schreef over de positie van de Afro-Amerikanen in de VS, van de baanbrekende auteurs Aksel Sandemose (1899-1965) en de op latere leeftijd debuterende Cora Sandel (1880-1974) en van de door de gebroeders Grimm geprezen spookjesverzamelaars Per Chr. Asbjørnsen (1812-1885) en Jørgen Moe (1813-1882). Op de piano bij haar thuis stonden in 2010 de foto’s van haar man Herman Baars (1909-2004) en van haar favoriete auteur Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) zij aan zij. Ook na de Tweede Wereldoorlog koos ze als vertaler voor verrassende titels; zo vertaalde ze een bijzonder dagboek van de verzetsstrijder Petter Moen (1901-1944), werk van de communist Nordahl Grieg (1902-1943), van de controversiële Noorse ontdekkingsreiziger Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) en de Zweedse Nobelprijswinnaar Pär Lagerkvist (1891-1974). In 1951 zette ze een opmerkelijke stap. Als eerste vrouw in Nederland richtte ze een auteursbureau op, überhaupt een relatief nieuw verschijnsel in de internationale boekenbranche. Tot op hoge leeftijd bleef ze actief als vertaler en literair agent. Het feit dat ze autodidact was en de Nederlandse scandinavistiek zich vanaf de jaren vijftig steeds meer ging professionaliseren, was er misschien de oorzaak van dat er weinig aansluiting was tussen Baars-Jelgersma en de academische scandinavisten. Op latere leeftijd lijkt ze een einzelgänger te zijn geworden en in 2010 was ze als vertaler en literair agent in het vergeetboek terecht gekomen.
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