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Book/Printed Material Measuring the master race: physical anthropology in Norway, 1890-1945

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Title

  • Measuring the master race: physical anthropology in Norway, 1890-1945

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.

Names

  • Kyllingstad, Jon Røyne, author

Created / Published

  • Cambridge, England : Open Book Publishers, 2014.

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.

Headings

  • -  Anthropometry--Norway--History
  • -  Craniometry--Norway--History
  • -  Physical anthropology--Norway--History

Genre

  • Electronic books

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 30, 2020).

Medium

  • 1 online resource (xxii, 251 pages) : illustrations

Call Number/Physical Location

  • GN50.45.N6

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019452829

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  • Unrestricted online access

Online Format

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Kyllingstad, Jon Røyne, Author. Measuring the master race: physical anthropology in Norway, -1945. Cambridge, England: Open Book Publishers, 2014. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/2019452829/.

APA citation style:

Kyllingstad, J. R. (2014) Measuring the master race: physical anthropology in Norway, -1945. Cambridge, England: Open Book Publishers. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2019452829/.

MLA citation style:

Kyllingstad, Jon Røyne, Author. Measuring the master race: physical anthropology in Norway, -1945. Cambridge, England: Open Book Publishers, 2014. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2019452829/>.