Hilma Granqvist

Hilma Natalia Granqvist (17 July 1890 Sipoo – 25 February 1972 Helsinki) was a Swedish-speaking Finnish anthropologist who conducted long field studies of Palestinians.

In the 1920s Granqvist arrived at the village of Artas, just outside Bethlehem in the then British Mandate of Palestine as part of her research on the women of the Old Testament.

She therefore changed the focus of her research to a full investigation of the customs, habits and ways of thinking of the people of that village.

"[1] "God knows that our outfit today A hundred ‘royal’ robes which we have cut For the bride to whom we are betrothed.

God knows – today is our outfit A green and a ‘royal’ [malak] dress we have bought For the bride to whom we are betrothed!