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Annual Report
2019 ANNUAL REPORT Continuing to develop Thor Heyerdahl’s cultural legacy CONTENTS 1. Members of the Board in 2019 4 1.1. Management of the Institute 4 1.2. Auditor 4 2. The Thor Heyerdahl Institute continues to develop the cultural legacy of Thor Heyerdahl 5 2.1. The work of the Board 7 3. Project reports: What happened in 2019? Project overview 8 3.1. Thor Heyerdahl Scholarships 2016-2019: A gift from the Norwegian Government 10 3.2. The Thor Heyerdahl International Day 2019: Tribute to the Ocean - A conference on a global theme. The ocean and environmental challenges 10 3.3. The Institute and international co-operation with universities in Scotland, the USA and England. Cultural collaboration with Andora/Italy and the Italian Embassy in Oslo 13 3.4. Pilot project, a Thor Heyerdahl Centre in Larvik 13 3.5. Larvik Open to the World – lectures in Thor Heyerdahl’s childhood home 16 4. The Institute’s book collection at Larvik Library 18 5. Organisational development 19 6. Future areas of focus (2020-2022) 21 7. Financial status 23 8. Financial statements and notes 2019 24 8.1. Profit and Loss Account 26 8.2. Balance Sheet 27 8.3. Notes 30 8.4. The Thor Heyerdahl Institute, operations 32 8.5. The Thor Heyerdahl Memorial Fund, project accounts 33 8.6. Master’s degree scholarship scheme 33 8.7. Thor Heyerdahl concerts 34 8.8. The Thor Heyerdahl International Day 2019 34 9. Directors’ statement 2019 36 Information about the type of activities and how the Institute operates 36 Organisational development in 2019 36 The financial basis for operations 37 Statement regarding the assumption of continued operations 38 The working environment 38 The external environment 39 Explanation of the annual financial statements 39 Summary of the long-term strategies and plans for 2020-2021 39 Statement regarding the basis for evaluating the future development of the Institute 40 10. -
Thor Heyerdahl 1914-2002 THOR HEYERDAHL 1914-2002
Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation Volume 16 Article 1 Issue 2 October 2002 Thor eH yerdahl 1914-2002 Helene Martinsson-Wallin The Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo, Norway Paul Wallin The Kon-Tiki Museum, Oslo, Norway Follow this and additional works at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj Part of the History of the Pacific slI ands Commons, and the Pacific slI ands Languages and Societies Commons Recommended Citation Martinsson-Wallin, Helene and Wallin, Paul (2002) "Thor eyH erdahl 1914-2002," Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation: Vol. 16 : Iss. 2 , Article 1. Available at: https://kahualike.manoa.hawaii.edu/rnj/vol16/iss2/1 This Commentary or Dialogue is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Hawai`i Press at Kahualike. It has been accepted for inclusion in Rapa Nui Journal: Journal of the Easter Island Foundation by an authorized editor of Kahualike. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Martinsson-Wallin and Wallin: Thor Heyerdahl 1914-2002 THOR HEYERDAHL 1914-2002 Te rnoana nui e [The sea is vast Te pahi iti e The boat is small A hakae tangata "Kon-Tiki" e Brave i the Kon-Tiki man] r. "Kon-Tiki" passed away quietly in his home in Italy and Heyerdahl's book about the voyage became a best eller on the 18th of April 2002, at the age of 87. As one of and was translated into at least 70 language ; it ha sold in S the most famous Norwegians ever, he accomplished many millions of copies all around the world. -
Banquet Dinner Kon-Tiki
BANQUET DINNER The banquet dinner will be held on Tuesday June 21st 2011 at the Kon-Tiki Museum, Bygdøynesveien 36 - 0286 Oslo. See: http://www.kon-tiki.no/e_aapning.php See the Kon-Tiki hall in 360 degrees: http://www.kon-tiki.no/Museumtour.php The museum will be open for banquet dinner guests from 19:00, and dinner will be served at 20:00. The Kon-Tiki Museum contains the original vessels Kon-Tiki and Ra II. Other fascinating items from Thor Heyerdahl’s world famous expeditions are also exhibited: from Fatu-Hiva and Easter Island, and the Tigris expedition. There is a separate area housing temporary exhibitions, a 30 m cave tour and an underwater exhibition including a life-size model of a whale shark. The museum has a souvenir shop. Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002) is one of Norway’s most famous sons: scientist, adventurer and champion of the environment. See: http://www.kon-tiki.no/E-Heyerdahl.php Getting to the Kon-Tiki Museum by public transport The Kon-Tiki Museum is situated at Bygdøynes, just outside the centre of Oslo, and can be reached by bus or boat. Bus number 30 departs from the National Theatre and the Central Station at 10 minute intervals and the journey to Bygdøynes takes approximately 25 minutes. See: http://www.kon-tiki.no/E-praktiskeoppl.php The bus route from the National Theatre to the Kon-Tiki Museum The ferry sails frequently from the quayside near the City Hall and takes only 15 minutes to reach Bygdøynes, which is the second stop. -
Tangaroapacific VOYAGE
Tangaroa PACIFIC VOYAGE Testing HeyerdahlÕs Theories about Kon-Tiki 60 Years Later A N D E R S B E R G / T A N G A R O A by Torgeir Sæverud Higraff with Betty Blair 1 Crew that sailed the Tangaroa raft from Peru to the Polynesian islands (April to August 2006). Left to right: Torgeir S. Higraff (expedition leader), Anders Berg (photographer), Olav Heyerdahl (carpenter, scuba diver and grandson of the famous Thor Heyerdahl who led a similar expedition in 1947), standing behind: Bjarne Krekvik (captain), Øyvin Lauten (executive officer) and Roberto Sala (Peruvian ex-navy sailor). s far back as I can ever remember, Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002). popular knowledge in making people aware of early navigation and has always been my hero. Ever since childhood. I know I’m not migration patterns across the continents. A alone. The ventures of this great explorer, anthropologist and He prodded researchers to rethink the early migration patterns of man— archaeologist on the high seas have captured the imagination of millions of not only in terms of the direction of immigration from West to East, but in the people around the world, making him the most famous Norwegian as well feasibility and likelihood that early man had had the capacity to cross vast as one of the most well-known international figures of the 20th century. His expanses of water. Heyerdahl generated enormous interest in numerous fame is most closely associated with his first voyage across the Pacific fields—cultural history, anthropology, archaeology, botany, biology, early Ocean on a primitive balsa raft named “Kon-Tiki”, the Inca name for “Sun God”. -
Kon-Tiki Theory’
Melander, V. 2019. David’s Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Reception Bofulletin the History of Archaeology of Thor Heyerdahl’s ‘Kon-Tiki Theory’. Bulletin of the History of Archaeology, 29(1): 6, pp. 1–11. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bha-612 RESEARCH PAPER: ASIA/PACIFIC David’s Weapon of Mass Destruction: The Reception of Thor Heyerdahl’s ‘Kon-Tiki Theory’ Victor Melander From the late 1930s to his death in 2002, Norwegian adventurer and amateur ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl struggled to find academic acceptance for his Pacific Islands settlement theory. He even went as far as using the biblical story of David and Goliath as a metaphor for his struggle against academia. However, there are numerous reasons to question the accuracy of Heyerdahl’s description of his relationship to the scientific community. This paper discusses the reception of Heyerdahl’s ‘Kon-Tiki theory’ among Pacific scholars in the late 1940s and early 1950s. By analysing contemporary reviews of Heyerdahl’s 1952 book American Indians in the Pacific and comments on early drafts of the theory, this paper demonstrates that the material substantially differs from Heyerdahl’s own claims. He was not excluded by the Pacific scientific community, but welcomed and encouraged. Above all, reviewers of Heyerdahl’s theory praised the importance of the challenge he had posed to the established research narrative. However, Heyerdahl’s academic amateurism failed to convince the scientific community of the accuracy of his theory. Introduction 170–214). The theme was hardly new and had already From the late 1930s to his death in 2002, Norwegian been adopted by Heyerdahl as a narrative driving force in adventurer and amateur ethnologist Thor Heyerdahl the 1940s (e.g. -
The Power of the Periphery
Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.40, on 02 Oct 2021 at 20:33:14, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/7070AC66999C30D35EAE07F0A290963A Downloaded from https://www.cambridge.org/core. IP address: 170.106.40.40, on 02 Oct 2021 at 20:33:14, subject to the Cambridge Core terms of use, available at https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms. https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/7070AC66999C30D35EAE07F0A290963A The Power of the Periphery What is the source of Norway’s culture of environmental harmony in our troubled world? Exploring the role of Norwegian scholar-activists of the late twentieth century, Peder Anker examines how they portrayed their country as a place of environmental stability in a world filled with tension. In contrast with societies dirtied by the hot and cold wars of the twentieth century, Norway’s power, they argued, lay in the pristine, ideal natural environment of the periphery. Globally, a beautiful Norway came to be contrasted with a polluted world and fashioned as an ecological microcosm for the creation of a better global macro- cosm. In this innovative, interdisciplinary history, Anker explores the ways in which ecological concerns were imported via Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring in 1962, then to be exported from Norway back to the world at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core. is Associate Professor at The Gallatin School of Indi- vidualized Study, New York University. -
Kon-Tiki Expedition (1947) [Information from the Kon Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway]
Kon-Tiki Expedition (1947) [Information from the Kon Tiki Museum in Oslo, Norway] On 28 April 1947, a raft made of balsawood carrying six men and a parrot sailed out of Callao, Peru. Its skipper was the then 33-year-old Thor Heyerdahl, and their destination was Polynesia. The expedition was a result of the theory Heyerdahl had been pondering ever since his stay on Fatu Hiva: this group of islands in the South Pacific could not have been populated solely by peoples from the west. It must also have been populated by indigenous South Americans. Among the circumstantial evidence Heyerdahl pointed to, was the story of Kon-Tiki Viracocha, a native chief who, legend has it, sailed west from Peru into the sunset on a large balsawood raft. Heyerdahl had presented his theory to a group of leading American anthropologists in the spring of 1946, but they gave him the cold shoulder. One of them, Herbert Spinden, even went so far as to challenge Thor: “Sure, see how far you get yourself sailing from Peru to the South Pacific on a balsa raft!” Thor Heyerdahl at the Explorers Club in New York, 1946 Heyerdahl took the challenge to heart and immediately set about planning the expedition that would take him and a crew across the Pacific Ocean on his own balsa raft. First Heyerdahl had to recruit a crew. This proved relatively easy, and he soon had five well- qualified men on his team. Together they traveled to Ecuador to procure balsa timber for the raft and then on to Peru to build it. -
Compact 10-Day Marquesas
WELCOME TO POLYNESIA NEW! COMPACT 10-DAY MARQUESAS TM ABOARD NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ORION | 2019 & 2020 Sven’s photos from his recent Polynesia expedition aboard National Geographic Orion, clockwise from upper left: vivid color in the ‘aquarium of Rangiroa’; drone’s eye view of a reef; the scent of tiare (gardenia) is everywhere; Orion’s chef, Lothar Greiner, sourcing locally; guest, Kristin Hetterman, wearing her warm Polynesia welcome; Zodiac with guests returning from a day of exploring; a skilled palm frond weaver crafts a bowl. DEAR TRAVELER, In the past three years I’ve spent a couple of weeks in French Polynesia, each time exploring some new terrain. Why return year after year? Because I find the region utterly joyous, beautiful and fascinating; the people, the land and sea and particularly the undersea. I might not have developed my interest, however, were it not for two perspective-changing moments. The first was hearing my father’s tales of the South Pacific, particularly Easter Island which he explored and brought visitors to in the 1960s. The second was traveling in the company of Bengt Danielsson in 1987 on a sailing barque from Easter Island to Tahiti. Subsequent to our voyage, Bengt, who sailed with Thor Heyerdahl on the Kon-Tiki in 1947, stayed in Tahiti and became a renowned anthropologist. “We never learned much about Polynesia in school, actually nothing,” he told me once with a smile. What he said was true. We in the West were pretty obsessed about Europe, the Greeks and Romans, the Egyptians—but not the Polynesians. So, it’s not a region on many people’s bucket list, which actually I’m grateful for as it’s in no way overrun. -
Transdisciplinary Framework for Global Environmental and Social Sustainability - Sustainomics Professor Mohan Munasinghe
Transdisciplinary Framework for Global Environmental and Social Sustainability - Sustainomics Professor Mohan Munasinghe www.mohanmunasinghe.com Founder Chairman, Munasinghe Institute for Development (MIND), Colombo KIVA Guest Professor of Sustainable Development, Darmstadt Univ., Germany Distinguished Guest Professor, Peking University, China Visiting Professor, Vale Sustainable Dev. Inst., Fed. Univ. of Para, Belem, Brazil Vice Chair, IPCC-AR4 that shared the 2007 Nobel Prize for Peace Keynote Speech at the Thor Heyerdahl 100th anniversary international conference on Sustainable Development Larvik, Norway, 24 September 2014 M I N D Munasinghe Institute for Development Ayubowan God Dag Greetings Munasinghe Institute Institute for for Development Development M I N D Warm congratulations to the Thor Heyerdahl Institute for selecting the theme of Sustainable Development for the 100th birth Anniversary of Thor Heyerdahl. Complex global problems of sustainable development need integrated, transdisciplinary methods. We hope the message will reach a wide audience – researchers, decisionmakers, the public & youth. We need to inspire everyone! We need to empower civil society and business to work with government to make development more sustainable in Norway & worldwide applying transdisciplinary methods Munasinghe Institute for Development M I N D Thor Heyerdahl was a man ahead of his time – many of his ideas are highly relevant today! My lecture adresses the conference theme of Sustainable Development as well as the main areas covered by Thor Heyerdahl Institute, which seeks to promote his thoughts on: •Interdisciplinary research (Heyerdahl – zoologist, geographer & Polynesian specialist) •International dialogue / multi-cultural co-op. (Heyerdahl - man of peace & ethnographer) •Protection of the global environment (Heyerdahl - explorer and nature lover) Munasinghe Institute for Development M I N D Thor Heyerdahl – Brief Bio • 1914 - Born - October 6, Larvik, Norway. -
Thor Heyerdahl: Zoologistudenten Og Friluftsmannen, Forskeren Og Miljøforkjemperen
Rapport nr. 66 | ISSN 1891-8050 | ISBN nr. 978-82-7970-087-6|2017 Thor Heyerdahl: Zoologistudenten og friluftsmannen, forskeren og miljøforkjemperen Tor A. Bakke Denne rapportserien utgis av: Naturhistorisk museum Postboks 1172 Blindern 0318 Oslo www.nhm.uio.no Publiseringsform: Elektronisk (pdf) og trykket Forfatter: Tor A. Bakke Sitering: Bakke, Tor A. (2017). Thor Heyerdahl: Zoologistudenten og friluftsmannen, forskeren og miljøforkjemperen. Naturhistorisk museum, Universitetet i Oslo, Rapport nr. 66, 1-139. http://www.nhm.uio.no/forskning/publikasjoner/rapporter/ ISSN 1891-8050 ISBN nr. 978-82-7970-087-6 Forsidefigur: «The zoologist». Thor Heyerdahls ironiske tegning over den sterke fagspesialiseringen blant akademikere som gjør at de ofte manglet generell kunnskap om bl.a. fagets praktiske sider lik professoren i zoologi på bildet. (Courtesy of the Kon-Tiki Museum.) Thor Heyerdahl: Zoologistudenten og friluftsmannen, forskeren og miljøforkjemperen Tor A. Bakke Antall sider og bilag: Tittel Thor Heyerdahl: Zoologistudenten og 139 friluftsmannen, forskeren og miljø- forkjemperen Forfatter(e)/ enhet: Tor A. Bakke / NHM, UiO Rapportnummer: Gradering: Prosjektleder: Prosjektnummer: 66 Åpen Tor A. Bakke ISSN Dato: Oppdragsgiver(e): ISSN 1891-8050 November 2017 Tor A. Bakke, Prof.em. ISBN Oppdragsgivers ref. ISBN nr. 978-82-7970-087-6 [email protected] Forord Naturhistorisk museum (NHM), Universitetet i Oslo (UiO), omfatter Colletts Hus (Zoologisk museum), Lids Hus (Botanisk museum) og Brøggers Hus (Geologisk museum), i tillegg til Botanisk hage og to veksthus, Palmehuset og Victoriahuset. NHM har magasinert 65 % av landets natur- historiske objekter, dvs. ca. 6,2 millioner prøver fordelt over seks hovedsamlinger: Zoologiske, botaniske, mykologiske, paleontologiske og geologiske, i tillegg til ca. -
The Coming of the White Bearded Men: the Origin and Development of Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki Theory
The Coming of the White Bearded Men: The Origin and Development of Thor Heyerdahl's Kon-Tiki Theory Thesis submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy The Australian National University Victor Melander 2020 © Copyright by Victor Melander, 2020 All Rights Reserved The research presented in this thesis is my own. This thesis has not previously been submitted in any form for any other degree at this or any other university. Victor Melander Content List of illustrations iii Abstract v Preface/Acknowledgement vii Notes on Language and Translations viii Abbreviations x Chapter 1 – Introduction 1 1.1 The Kon-Tiki Theory: A Traveller's Tale? 3 1.2 Source Material 6 1.3 Thor Heyerdahl, a Biographical Note 10 1.4 The Kon-Tiki Theory 16 1.5 Heyerdahl and the Marquesas Islands 24 1.6 Travellers' Chronotopes and Hagiographic Mythologies: Theoretical and 33 Methodological Points of Departure 1.7 The Biographical Narrative: Previous Biographical and Scholarly Work 40 1.8 Research Aims and Thesis Structure 43 Chapter 2 – The Anarchists' Department: Heyerdahl and Oslo 46 University 1933-1938 2.1 The Reindeer's Nostrils: The Artifice of Scientific Specialisation 47 2.2 Nansenism: Expeditions in the Light of Norwegian Scientific Tradition 57 2.3 The Tristan da Cunha Expedition 60 2.4 The Zoological Club Presentation 66 2.5 Summary and Conclusion 74 Chapter 3 – Modern Man and Other Savages: Heyerdahl's 76 Perception and Knowledge of Polynesia Before 1937 3.1 Everything there was to know about Polynesian Ethnology: Heyerdahl 77 and the Kroepelien Library -
Oslo Metropolitan University
MASTER’S THESIS Master’s Program in Multicultural and International Education February 2020 Title: A Fine Balance: Steadying the Heyerdahl’s Heritage and Indigenous Knowledge at the Kon-Tiki Museum Zohreh Farzadfar OsloMet – Oslo Metropolitan University Faculty of Education and International Studies Department of International Studies and Interpreting Acknowledgements The present study would not have been possible without the help and support of the individuals in both Oslo Metropolitan University and Kon-Tiki museum, whom I would like to show my sincere appreciation. Firstly, I would like to appreciate my supervisor Thorgeir Kolshus for his precious time and consultations. He has been always available to help out meticulously regardless of the fact that he had got a lot on his plate. I have to thank all the welcoming people at the Kon-Tiki museum in Oslo, who have been to a great extent generous with their time and resources. My special thanks goes to my family and friends who have been always supporting me, specially my spouse Shahab, who has been encouraging me endlessly day in and day out. Last but not least, I would like to thank Oslo Metropolitan University for offering this worthy Master’s program in Multicultural and International Education, which made me grow cognitively, academically and astutely. Oslo, February 2020 Zohreh Farzadfar II Abstract Thor Heyerdahl (1914-2002), the Norwegian explorer, in 1947 did his first major expedition over the Pacific Ocean, which brought him world-wide fame. He believed that people from South America could have settled Polynesia in pre-Columbian times via crossing the Pacific Ocean by means of balsa-wood rafts.