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Barbro Klein (1938-2018) was a Swedish professor of ethnology. She received her Ph. D. in Folklore studies and Antrhopology at Indiana University in 1970 and spent several years of teaching in the US. Returning to Scandinavia in 1983, she took 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. In 2017, she was awarded the King’s Medal for “significant contributions to Swedish and international scholarship and as an ethnologist.”
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)