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

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

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: Open Book Publishers, publisher (publisher)
Otros Autores: Kyllingstad, Jon Røyne, author (author)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, England : Open Book Publishers 2014.
Materias:
Physical anthropology > Norway > History.
Anthropometry > Norway > History.
Craniometry > Norway > History.
Nazi ideology
anthropology
scientific discourse
eugenics
Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009424434106719
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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