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- Beckman, Jenny
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Naturens palats
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This study considers the institutional identities of theSwedish Museum of Natural History (SMNH) from a spatialperspective. The focus is on the decision, in 1904, to move themuseum from its old inner-city building in Stockholm to a newsite in Frescati, north-east of the city. During the debatessurrounding the relocation of the museum, different ideas werearticulated about its precise role as an institution ofresearch, of education, and of entertainment. It becamepossible to redefine the position of the museum, at a time whenits national, scientific, educational, and geographicalcontexts were changing.Depending on the perspective, the relocation of the SMNH canbe seen either as a success or as a failure. It was successfulin the sense that the museum was granted large sums of moneyand considerable Crown lands for the new, monumental buildings.It was a failure in terms of its increased geographical andsocial distance from colleagues and visitors. Through a studyof the relocation project on three different spatial levels,different aspects of the institutional identity of the SMNHcome to light. On a national level, funding and appointmentpolicies reflect the position of the museum withinnineteenth-century cultural politics as well as within academicresearch. Perspectives from human geography and architecturaltheory are used to investigatethe function of the museum on amunicipal and an architectural level. The new location of theSMNH outside central Stockholm is indicative of its status asan academic institution, where visitors were less importantthan research. The struggle surrounding the design of themuseum building reflects different ideas of the function of themuseum. Finally, the design of the exhibitions themselvesidentifies the role of the SMNH in the Swedish system ofeducation.Key words:history of science, history of ideas, historyof biology, history of architecture, museums, education, urbanplanning, Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, 19th century, 20thcentury.
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- Beckman, Jenny
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Yngve Sjöstedt
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Ingår i: Svenskt biografiskt lexikon.
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
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- Ljungström, Olof
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Oscariansk antropologi : Exotism, förhistoria och rasforskning som vetenskaplig människosyn
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This dissertation is a study of anthropological research in 19th century Sweden. Its point of departure is the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography, founded in 1873. Emphasis is placed on the work of the Society's quartet of founders, physical anthropologist Gustaf Retzius, archaeologists Hans Hildebrand and Oscar Montelius and ethnographerarchaeologist Hjalmar Stolpe. By taking the entire range of their interests into account, a fuller picture can be drawn than by just focusing on any one of these, later separately institutionalized, fields of research. The dissertation is divided into three parts. Part 1 deals with conditions, both national and international, surrounding the foundation of the Swedish Society for Anthropology. Part 2 focuses on the ethnographical museum work of Hjalmar Stolpe. Through him, a social history of 19th century ethnography can be written, as well as an inquiry made into the epistemology of ethnography and archaeology as museum sciences of culture. Also, the importance of 19th century German cultural anthropology for the Swedes is established. Part 3 deals with the problems of race and ethnicity at the intersection between archaeology and physical anthropology. The role of the so-called "Aryan hypothesis" is explored as well as the rise of Aryan supremacist ideas in science at the turn of the 20th century, providing new facts about the establishment of the racial biology movement in Sweden.
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