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Bengt Emmerik Danielsson (6 July 1921–4 July 1997) was an anthropologist and a crew member on the Kon-Tiki
Kon-Tiki

Kon-Tiki is the raft used by Norway explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesia....
 raft expedition from South America
South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
 to French Polynesia
French Polynesia

French Polynesia is a France overseas collectivity in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the territory ....
 in 1947. Danielsson was born in Sweden in 1921, obtained a Ph.D. in anthropology
Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology ....
 and was director of Sweden's National Museum of Ethnology
Museum of Ethnography, Sweden

The Museum of Ethnography , in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish science museum. It houses a collection of about 220,000 items relating to the ethnography, or cultural anthropology, of peoples from around the world, including from China, Korea, South Asia and Southeast Asia, the Pacific region, the Americas and Africa....
 for many years.

After the Kon-Tiki expedition, Danielsson decided to settle in Raroia
Raroia

Raroia, or Raro-nuku, is an atoll of the Tuamotus in French Polynesia, located 740 km northeast of Tahiti and 6 km southwest of Takume....
, the atoll on which the raft had made landfall.






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Bengt Emmerik Danielsson (6 July 1921–4 July 1997) was an anthropologist and a crew member on the Kon-Tiki
Kon-Tiki

Kon-Tiki is the raft used by Norway explorer and writer Thor Heyerdahl in his 1947 expedition across the Pacific Ocean from South America to the Polynesia....
 raft expedition from South America
South America

South America is the southern continent of the Americas, situated entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere....
 to French Polynesia
French Polynesia

French Polynesia is a France overseas collectivity in the southern Pacific Ocean. It is made up of several groups of Polynesian islands, the most famous island being Tahiti in the Society Islands group, which is also the most populous island and the seat of the capital of the territory ....
 in 1947. Danielsson was born in Sweden in 1921, obtained a Ph.D. in anthropology
Anthropology

Anthropology is the study of humans and humanity in its totality. Anthropology has origins in the natural sciences, and the humanities. In Great Britain it was originally divided into physical anthropology and cultural anthropology, which itself was divided into archaeology, technology, ethnology and sociology ....
 and was director of Sweden's National Museum of Ethnology
Museum of Ethnography, Sweden

The Museum of Ethnography , in Stockholm, Sweden, is a Swedish science museum. It houses a collection of about 220,000 items relating to the ethnography, or cultural anthropology, of peoples from around the world, including from China, Korea, South Asia and Southeast Asia, the Pacific region, the Americas and Africa....
 for many years.

After the Kon-Tiki expedition, Danielsson decided to settle in Raroia
Raroia

Raroia, or Raro-nuku, is an atoll of the Tuamotus in French Polynesia, located 740 km northeast of Tahiti and 6 km southwest of Takume....
, the atoll on which the raft had made landfall. His doctoral thesis on the Tuamotus
Tuamotus

The Tuamotus or the Tuamotu Archipelago are a chain of atolls in French Polynesia and the largest chain of atolls in the world, spanning an area of the Pacific Ocean roughly the size of Western Europe....
 island chain, submitted to Upsala University in 1955, was published the following year as Work and Life on Raroia. He subsequently wrote many books and scripted many films, becoming one of the world's foremost students of Polynesia
Polynesia

Polynesia is a subregion of Oceania, comprising a large grouping of over 1,000 islands scattered over the central and southern Pacific Ocean....
. He and his wife Marie-Therese Danielsson were particularly outspoken critics of French nuclear tests at Moruroa
Moruroa

Mururoa , also historically known as Aopuni, is an atoll which forms part of the Tuamotu Archipelago in French Polynesia in the southern Pacific Ocean....
 and Fangataufa
Fangataufa

Fangataufa is a small, low, narrow, coral atoll in the eastern side of the Tuamotu Archipelago. Along with its neighboring atoll, Moruroa, it has been the site of approximately 200 nuclear bomb tests....
 atolls, and of the destruction of Polynesian culture through colonialism
Colonialism

Colonialism is the extension of a nation's sovereignty over Territory beyond its borders by the establishment of either settler or exploitation colony in which Indigenous people populations are direct rule, Population transfers, or Genocide....
. Their daughter Maruia died from cancer at a young age.

Danielsson received the Right Livelihood Award
Right Livelihood Award

The Right Livelihood Award, established in 1980 by Jakob von Uexkull, is an award that is presented annually, usually on December 9, to honour those "working on practical and exemplary solutions to the most urgent challenges facing the world today"....
 for his campaigning work in 1991. He died in July 1997 following a deterioration in his health, and was buried in Mjölby
Mjölby

Mj?lby is a urban areas of Sweden in ?sterg?tland, Sweden and the seat of Mj?lby Municipality, ?sterg?tland County.Mj?lby is located by the rivulet Svart?n....
, Sweden.

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