03399 am 22005773u 450 991015625700332120221206093928.01-909254-57-62-8218-7621-11-909254-56-8(MiAaPQ)EBC3440248(FrMaCLE)OB-obp-2372(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/52923(PPN)198368836(EXLCZ)99371000000043326220150625h20142014 uy 0engurcn#||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMeasuring the master race physical anthropology in Norway, 1890-1945 /Jon Røyne KyllingstadOpen Book PublishersCambridge, England :Open Book Publishers,2014.©20141 online resource (xiii, 251 pages) illustrations, maps; digital, PDF file(s)Print version: 9781909254558 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Physical anthropologyNorwayHistoryAnthropometryNorwayHistoryCraniometryNorwayHistoryNazi ideologyanthropologyscientific discourseeugenicsPhysical anthropologyHistory.AnthropometryHistory.CraniometryHistory.599.909481Kyllingstad Jon Røyne803510Open Book Publishers,MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQUkMaJRUBOOK9910156257003321Measuring the master race2161637UNINA