Ernst Mauritz Manker (20 March 1893 – 1 February 1972) was a

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ethnographer, known for his work on Sami history and

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Ernst Manker
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. With a bibliographyEva Silvén, «Ernst Manker 1893–1972». In: Mats Hellspong & Fredrik Skott (ed.), ''Svenska etnologer och folklorister''. Utgitt av Kungl. Gustav Adolfs Akademien för svensk folkkultur, 2010
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He was born in

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, son of a sea captain, later a farmer. He graduated as fil.kand. from Göteborgs högskola 1924 with a major in ethnography. His first job was at Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm, where he studied African cultures and wrote ''Kristallbergens folk'' (1929). Journeys in Sami districts in the 1920s, especially a trekking in 1926, made Sami history his main field. When a Sami section was established at

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in 1939, he became its first manager. By then, he was already working with his major work on

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s, ''Die lappische Zaubertrommel'' (2 volumes, 1938 og 1950). He also wrote ''The nomadism of the Swedish mountain Lapps'' (1953), ''Lapparnas heliga ställen'' (1957) og ''Fångstgropar och stalotomter'' (1960). Manker was chairman of Svenska fjällklubben 1949-58, and became member of

Finno-Ugrian Society Finno-Ugrian Society (french: Société Finno-Ougrienne, fi, Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura) is a Finnish learned society, dedicated to the study of Uralic and Altaic languages. It was founded in Helsinki in 1883 by the proposal of professor Otto D ...

1942, and

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1956. He became an honorary member of

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1947, gained an

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at Stockholms universitet 1953, was awarded ''Qvigstadmedaljen'' from

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1967 and

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's ''Dag Hammarskjöld-medalj'' 1967. He was awarded both

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and

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.Uggla, Erik T:son (ed.): ''Ordenskalender 1963. Svenska innehavare av svenska och utenlændska riddarordnar samt vissa svenska medaljer'', Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell, 1963, s. 224.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Manker, Ernst 1893 births 1972 deaths Swedish ethnographers Sámi history People from Tjörn Municipality