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

Published Cambridge, England : Open Book Publishers, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 251 pages) : illustrations 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Viewed on 2020-03-30 Subject Physical anthropology -- Norway -- History Anthropometry -- Norway -- History Craniometry -- Norway -- History 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 Form Electronic book LC no. 2019452829 ISBN 1909254568 9781909254572 1909254576 9781909254589 1909254584 9781909254565

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