Anna Birgitta Rooth
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Swedish ethnology professor
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Anna Birgitta Rooth's Degrees
- PhD Ethnology Uppsala University
- Masters Ethnology Uppsala University
- Bachelors Ethnology Uppsala University
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Anna "Anta" Birgitta Rooth was the first Swedish professor of ethnology at Uppsala University. She is known for her research into folklore, especially the Cinderella story. Early life and education Anna Birgitta Rooth was born on 15 May 1919, in Ängelholm, Sweden, to Hildegard Sofia Helena and Nore Valfrid Waldermarson. She had two brothers, Bertil and Bo Waldemarson. Rooth enjoyed reading as a child and at 19, gained a school-leaving certificate at Lunds privata elementarskola, allowing her to attend Lund University the same year.
Anna Birgitta Rooth's Published Works
Published Works
- The Cinderella cycle (1980) (29)
- Loki in Scandinavian mythology (1964) (11)
- The Alaska expedition 1966 : Myths, customs and beliefs among the Athabascan Indians and the Eskimos of northern Alaska (1971) (9)
- The raven and the carcass : an investigation of a motif in the deluge myth in Europe, Asia and North America (1965) (6)
- The importance of storytelling: A study based on field work in northern Alaska (1976) (6)
- The importance of storytelling (1976) (4)
- The Alaska expedition 1966 (1971) (3)
- The Alaska seminar (1980) (2)
- On the Difficulty of Transcribing Synchronic Perception into Diachronic Verbalization (1979) (0)
- Scholarly Tradition in Folktale Research (1958) (0)
- Comments on the settlement of Iceland by Letten Fegersten Saugstad NAR. 10, no. 1–2, 1977 (1978) (0)
- Anthropology and the Curriculum (1965) (0)
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