Halfdan Bryn and the Nordic Race
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23730078 |
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| Authors | Jon Røyne Kyllingstad (0000-0003-4836-9889, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Pages | 115-132 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-22 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Measuring the Master Race (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Open Book Publishers (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.11647/obp.0051.06 |
| OpenAlex | W2482247893 |
| ISBN | 9781909254541 |
| Language | EN |
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.
Political science · Race (biology) · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical and Archaeological Studies · History
| Highly cited | No |
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