Elli Köngäs-Maranda

Elli-Kaija Köngäs-Maranda (11 January 1932, Tervola, Finland – 1 November 1982, Québec City, Canada) was an internationally renowned anthropologist and feminist folklorist. She studied Finnish folklore at the University of Helsinki, and did her doctoral dissertation in 1963 at Indiana University.

Köngäs-Maranda was elected a Fellow of the American Folklore Society. The Society's Women's section inaugurated 1983 two prizes in her memory.

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

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The American Folklore Society

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