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

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"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 charact...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kyllingstad, Jon Røyne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, England : Open Book Publishers, 2014.
Subjects:
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.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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