Anna "Anta" Birgitta Rooth (15 May 1919 – 5 June 2000) was the first Swedish professor of ethnology at Uppsala University.
Anna Birgitta Rooth was born on 15 May 1919, in Ängelholm, Sweden, to Hildegard Sofia Helena and Nore Valfrid Waldermarson.
Working as an archival assistant, Rooth began a research project which later culminated into her thesis which she defended in 1951 under the direction of Carl Wilhelm von Sydow.
[3][2] Her doctoral dissertation, The Cinderella Cycle, continues to be a required reading in folklore studies.
[6] She also spent some time in Alaska and produced two works based on her field study of the Athabascan tribe and Inuit peoples.