Bengt Danielsson
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Bengt Emmerik Danielsson (1921–1997) was an anthropologist and a crew member on the Kon Tiki raft expedition from South America to French Polynesia in 1947. Bengt Danielsson was born in Sweden in 1921, obtained a Ph.D. in anthropology and was director of Sweden's National Museum of Ethnology for many years.[1]
After the expedition, Danielsson decided to settle on the atoll of Raroia[2]. His doctoral thesis on the Tuamotus, submitted to Upsala University in 1955, was published the following year as Work and Life on Raroia.[3] He has since written many books and scripted many films, becoming one of the world's foremost students of Polynesia. He and his wife, Marie-Therese Danielsson, were particularly outspoken critics of French nuclear tests at Moruroa and Fangataufa atolls, and of the destruction of Polynesian culture through colonialism.[4] Bengt Danielsson received Right Livelihood Award in 1991.
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[edit] Selected bibliography
- Danielsson, Bengt; Marie-Thérèse Danielsson (1986). Poisoned Reign: French Nuclear Colonialism in the Pacific. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-140-08130-5.
- Danielsson, Bengt (1965). Love in the South Seas. New York: Reynal.
- Danielsson, Bengt (1965). Gauguin in the South Seas. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.
- Danielsson, Bengt (1965). Work and Life on Raroia: An Acculturation Study from the Tuamotu Group, French Oceania. London: G. Allen & Unwin.
- Danielsson, Bengt (1962). What Happened on the Bounty. London: G. Allen & Unwin.
