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| Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography | |
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| Name | Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography |
| Formation | 1877 |
| Location | Stockholm, Sweden |
| Fields | Anthropology; Geography |
Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography is a learned society founded in 1877 in Stockholm that has promoted research and public knowledge in anthropology and geography through lectures, publications, expeditions and awards. The society has interacted with institutions such as the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the University of Uppsala, the University of Gothenburg, the Stockholm University and international bodies including the Royal Geographical Society, the American Geographical Society, the National Geographic Society and the International Geographical Union.
The society was established in 1877 during a period shaped by figures associated with the Arctic exploration and the broader era of African exploration, with early links to expeditions like those of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Sven Hedin, Fridtjof Nansen and contemporaries such as Erik Gustaf Geijer and August Strindberg's milieu. Its development ran parallel to institutions such as the Royal Society (United Kingdom), the Académie des sciences and the Prussian Academy of Sciences, and intersected with controversies involving figures like Carl Linnaeus's legacy, debates over racial classifications exemplified by exchanges referencing scholars in the tradition of Paul Broca and critics such as Franz Boas. During the 20th century the society engaged with polar research associated with Roald Amundsen, Richard E. Byrd and Umberto Nobile, and with human geography debates linked to Halford Mackinder and Carl O. Sauer.
The society's governance has mirrored structures used by bodies such as the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, the Swedish Historical Museum administration and the boards of universities including Lund University and Karolinska Institutet. Membership historically included explorers like Sven Hedin, anthropologists aligned with lines traced to Egil A. Mikkelsen and geographers connected to Torsten Hägerstrand, while institutional partnerships have involved Stockholm City Museum, the Swedish National Heritage Board and Nordic learned networks such as the Danish Geographical Society and the Norwegian Geographical Society. Honorary and corresponding members have included figures from the Smithsonian Institution, the British Museum, the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (France), the Royal Ontario Museum and the Australian National University.
The society organizes public lectures, scholarly symposia and fieldwork initiatives similar to programs run by the Royal Geographical Society, the Explorers Club and the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. It has sponsored expeditions akin to those led by Sven Hedin, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Helge Andersson and scientific voyages comparable to Fridtjof Nansen's Fram expedition, and collaborated with Arctic research platforms such as the Norwegian Polar Institute, the Scott Polar Research Institute and the Alfred Wegener Institute. Educational outreach has connected the society with museums and archives including the Vasa Museum, the Nordiska museet and university museums at Uppsala University and Lund University.
The society issues periodicals and monographs comparable in function to the Geographical Journal, the Annals of the Association of American Geographers, and the Journal of Anthropological Research. Its publishing record has paralleled editorial practices at the Cambridge University Press and the Oxford University Press and engaged contributors associated with scholars like Jared Diamond (in thematic resonance), David Harvey, Paul Vidal de la Blache and Bronisław Malinowski. Collections and translated works have featured topics linked to polar reports similar to those by Roald Amundsen and ethnographic accounts in the tradition of Franz Boas and Margaret Mead.
The society administers medals and prizes that are often compared with honors from institutions like the Royal Geographical Society, the National Geographic Society and the Explorers Club. Recipients historically have included explorers and scientists in the orbit of Sven Hedin, Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Sigrid Jusélius-type philanthropies and scholars tied to universities such as Uppsala University and Stockholm University. The society's awards have recognized fieldwork exemplars similar to Ernest Shackleton, polar science contributors like Robert Falcon Scott, and anthropological investigators in the lineage of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Lewis Henry Morgan.
The society's physical holdings and meeting locations in Stockholm have been associated with museum collections comparable to the Nordiska museet and research archives like the Swedish National Archives and the repositories of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. Its collections include expeditionary artifacts and maps similar to holdings at the Royal Geographical Society, ethnographic objects akin to those at the British Museum and cartographic materials in the tradition of holdings at the Library of Congress and the British Library.
Notable figures affiliated with the society have paralleled prominence of individuals such as Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Sven Hedin, Fridtjof Nansen, Thor Heyerdahl, Gustaf Retzius, Rudolf Kjellén and Torsten Hägerstrand, and have engaged with contemporaries from institutions like the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Swedish Academy, the Stockholm University faculty and international partners including the Royal Geographical Society, the American Geographical Society and the Smithsonian Institution. Leadership and honorary members over time have included explorers, ethnographers and geographers whose professional connections extended to Roald Amundsen, Ernest Shackleton, Robert Falcon Scott, Bronisław Malinowski, Margaret Mead and academics from Lund University and Uppsala University.
Category:Learned societies of Sweden Category:Scientific organizations established in 1877