Anna-Britta Hellbom

Anna-Britta Hellbom (25 July 1919 – 22 December 2004) was a Swedish anthropologist and Americanist. She is known for her ethnographic fieldworks in Mesoamerica in Mexico.

Biography Born on 25 July 1919 in Uppsala, Sweden, Anna-Britta Hellbom started her university studies in Nordic ethnology but later changed to social anthropology.

In the mid-1960s, she started her professional career at the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm. In 1967, she became the Americanist curator of the ethnographical museum in charge of the collections from the Americas, a position she held until her retirement in 1985.

She was influenced by the work of her teacher, Sigvald Linné (1899–1986), a Swedish archeologist and ethnographer, known for his excavations at Teotihuacan, an ancient Mesoamerican city, Mexico.

She extensively wrote on the role of women in Mexico based on her ethnographic fieldwork in Aztec culture.

The Ethnographic Museum in Stockholm houses several collections from her fieldwork.

She died in Oscar Parish, Stockholm on 22 December 2004.