Elli-Kaija Köngäs-Maranda (11 January 1932,

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– 1 November 1982,

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) was an internationally renowned anthropologist and feminist folklorist. She studied Finnish language and folklore at the

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, where she received her B.A. in 1954 and her M.A. in 1955. She continued her studies in the United States of America and did her doctoral dissertation in 1963 at

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. She was a lecturer at

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and a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute of

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. Köngäs-Maranda was elected a Fellow of the

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. The Society's Women's section inaugurated 1983 two prizes in her memory.

Research

Elli Köngäs-Maranda published books on Finnish-American folklore, theory and practice of riddle analysis, myth and art as teaching materials and structural models in folklore, including: * Elli-Kaija Köngäs-Maranda, ''Finnish Folklore Reader and Glossary'', Indiana University Publications: Uralic and Altaic Series, 71/Research and Studies in Uralic and Altaic Languages: Project No. 74 (Bloomington: Indiana University, 968 * Elli Köngäs Maranda and Pierre Maranda (eds), ''Structural Models in Folklore and Transformational Essays'', Approaches to Semiotics, 10/University of Pennsylvania Publications in Folklore and Folklife, 3 (The Hague: Mouton, 1971/Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press

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Personal life

The Canadian anthropologist Pierre Maranda was her husband with whom she had two sons: the oldest is Erik and youngest is musician Nicolas Maranda.

References

External links

The American Folklore Society
Canadian anthropologists Finnish anthropologists Canadian women anthropologists Finnish women anthropologists 1932 births 1982 deaths Finnish expatriates in Canada 20th-century anthropologists {{Anthropologist-stub