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Author Kyllingstad, Jon Røyne, author.

Title Measuring the master race: physical anthropology in Norway, 1890-1945 / Jon Røyne Kyllingstad.

Publication Info. Cambridge, England : Open Book Publishers, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 251 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents List of illustrations -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. The origin of the long-skulled Germanic race -- 2. The Germanic race and Norwegian nationalism -- 3. The Germanic race and Norwegian anthropology, 1880-1910 -- 4. Norwegian nationhood and the Germanic race, 1890-1910 -- 5. Racial hygiene and the Nordic race, 1900-1933 -- 6. Halfdan Bryn and the Nordic race -- 7. The Schreiners and the science of race -- 8. From collaboration to conflict : the racial survey of 1923-1929 -- 9. Science and ideology, 1925-1945 -- 10. The fall of the Nordic master race -- Selected bibliography -- Index.
Summary "The notion of a superior 'Germanic' or 'Nordic' race was a central theme in the ideology of the Nazis. But it was also a commonly accepted idea in the early twentieth century, and an actual scientific concept originating from anthropological research on the physical characteristics of Europeans. The Scandinavian Peninsula was considered to be the historical cradle and the core area of this 'master race'. This book investigates the role played by Scandinavian scholars in inventing this so-called superior race, and discusses how this concept put its stamp on Norwegian physical anthropology, prehistory, national identity, and on the Norwegian eugenics movement. It also explores the decline and scientific disputation of these ideas in the 1930s as they came to be associated with the 'genetic cleansing' of Nazi Germany. This is the first comprehensive study on Norwegian physical anthropology, and its findings shed new light on current political and scientific debates about race across the globe."--Publisher's website
Note Viewed on 2020-03-30.
Subject Physical anthropology -- Norway -- History.
Anthropometry -- Norway -- History.
Craniometry -- Norway -- History.
Anthropologie physique -- Norvège -- Histoire.
Anthropométrie -- Norvège -- Histoire.
Craniométrie -- Norvège -- Histoire.
Anthropology.
Europe.
Fascism and Nazism.
Northern Europe, Scandinavia.
Physical anthropology Mod Physical anthropology.
Political ideologies.
Politics and government.
Society and social sciences Society and social sciences.
Sociology and anthropology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Physical.
Anthropometry
Craniometry
Physical anthropology
Norway
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History
Other Form: Print version: 9781909254558
ISBN 1909254568
9781909254572 (epub)
1909254576
9781909254589 (mobi)
1909254584
9781909254565 (electronic bk.)
9781909254558
190925455X
9781909254541
1909254541
Standard No. 10.11647/OBP.0051 doi
AU@ 000062426541
AU@ 000066315472
AU@ 000066525866
GBVCP 865765863
NZ1 15967942
UKMGB 017388300

 
    
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