Palestine journals

Granqvist wrote the Palestine journals during her second fieldwork period in Artas in 1930-31. The journals contain ca 1 300 pages divided into thirteen notebooks and they are written in Swedish. Initially they were meant as a form of travel log for her mother. Later, however, Granqvist intended for them to be published as a travel description from Palestine in the 1930s, and therefore some of the notes are written on a typewriter.

Granqvist occasionally inserted photos and postcards into the notes as illustrations but these have later been retracted, in order to be used for other purposes. The journals are written as a background to the fieldwork in Artas and depict not only the village life and her own work process, but also town life in Jerusalem, during a politically turbulent era.

The Palestine journals are stored at the Åbo Akademi University Library in Turku.