Johannes Falkenberg

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

Biography Falkenberg was linked to the University of Oslo's ethnographic museum for most of his life; he was a curator in ethnography since 1953, and in 1962 was chief curator. The anthropologist Rodney Needham describes this work in a contemporary review for American Anthropologist as an "entirely splendid piece of ethnography, a masterly monograph which must immediately be ranked with the classics of Australian anthropology". Shapiro notes that the Falkenbergs fall into the tradition of "discursive ethnographers"; he considers this book provides a large amount of data, but criticises their approach as naive and at times "unnecessarily anecdotal and insufficiently formalised".