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Barbro Klein

Barbro Klein

Swedish professor of ethnology

Barbro Klein (1938 – 15 January 2018[1]) was a Swedish professor of ethnology.[2] After a bachelor's degree at the University of Stockholm in 1961, she obtained a scholarship to study at Indiana University where she received her Ph.D. in folklore studies and anthropology in 1970 under the direction of Richard Dorson.[2] She returned to Scandinavia in 1983, to take a position at the University of Stockholm. Klein was Director emerita of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), and a member of the executive board of the American Folklore Society.[2][3] In 2017, she was awarded the H. M. The King's Medal for “significant contributions to Swedish and international scholarship and as an ethnologist.”[2][4]

Klein wrote extensively on oral narration, rituals, and expressive culture, often in multi-ethnic settings. Her main fields were the folklore of Northern America and Scandinavia.

Selected writings

  • (1980) Legends and Folk Beliefs in a Swedish-American Community: A Study in Folklore and Acculturation
  • (2000) The Moral Content of Tradition: Homecraft, Ethnology, and Swedish Life in the Twentieth Century. Western Folklore.
  • (2006) Narrating, Doing, Experiencing: Nordic Folkloristic Perspectives (edited with Annikki Kaivola-Bregenhøj and Ulf Palmenfelt)

References

  1. [1]
    "SCAS: News - 20 February, 2018". www.swedishcollegium.se. 20 February 2018. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
  2. [2]
    af Klintberg, Bengt (2018-07-03). "Barbro Klein (1938–2018)". Folklore. 129 (3): 316–318. doi:10.1080/0015587x.2018.1485979.
  3. [3]
    "SCAS: Barbro Klein". www.swedishcollegium.se. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
  4. [4]
    "Medaljförläningar 28 januari 2017 - Sveriges Kungahus". www.kungahuset.se (in Swedish). 2017-01-28. Retrieved 2018-10-16.
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