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{{Short description|Swedish professor of ethnology}}
'''Barbro Klein''' (1938 – 15 January 2018<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.swedishcollegium.se/subfolders/News/2018/Obituary_Klein_180220.html |title=SCAS: News - 20 February, 2018 |date=20 February 2018 |website=www.swedishcollegium.se |access-date=2018-10-16}}</ref>) was a Swedish professor of [[ethnology]].<ref name="Klintberg">{{Cite journal |title=Barbro Klein (1938–2018) |journal = Folklore|volume = 129|issue = 3|last=af Klintberg |first=Bengt |date=2018-07-03 |pages=316–318 |language=en |doi=10.1080/0015587x.2018.1485979 |doi-access=free }}</ref> 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]].<ref name="Klintberg" /> 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]].<ref name="Klintberg" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.swedishcollegium.se/subfolders/Fellows/Permanent_Fellows/Barbro.html |title=SCAS: Barbro Klein |website=www.swedishcollegium.se |access-date=2018-10-16}}</ref> In 2017, she was awarded the [[H. M. The King's Medal]] for “significant contributions to Swedish and international scholarship and as an ethnologist.”<ref name="Klintberg" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.kungahuset.se/press/pressmeddelanden/2017/2017pressmeddelanden/medaljforlaningar28januari2017.5.2647d2fa159447c25a53e2d.html |title=Medaljförläningar 28 januari 2017 - Sveriges Kungahus |date=2017-01-28 |website=www.kungahuset.se |language=sv |access-date=2018-10-16}}</ref>
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)''
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