Väinö Tanner and the discourse on racial difference
The article charts a previously lesser-known aspect of research on the Skolt Sami by Väinö Tanner — his ideas on the Skolt Sami as a race. Tanner’s place in the scholarly field of racial theorizing and the discursive resources on which he relied are examined. One inspiring contemporaneous discourse...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:oai:doaj.org/article:e87126cbfc04438c8be8a20b5465c75a 2023-05-15T18:10:22+02:00 Väinö Tanner and the discourse on racial difference Jukka Nyyssönen 2017-09-01 https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2017.27.143 http://narfu.ru/upload/iblock/ad6/08_Nyyssonen.pdf https://doaj.org/article/e87126cbfc04438c8be8a20b5465c75a en ru eng rus Northern Arctic Federal University doi:10.17238/issn2221-2698.2017.27.143 2221-2698 http://narfu.ru/upload/iblock/ad6/08_Nyyssonen.pdf https://doaj.org/article/e87126cbfc04438c8be8a20b5465c75a undefined Арктика и Север, Vol 27, Pp 127-146 (2017) Väinö Tanner research on race studies on Sami the Skolt Sami lang hisphilso Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2017 fttriple https://doi.org/10.17238/issn2221-2698.2017.27.143 2023-01-22T17:09:13Z The article charts a previously lesser-known aspect of research on the Skolt Sami by Väinö Tanner — his ideas on the Skolt Sami as a race. Tanner’s place in the scholarly field of racial theorizing and the discursive resources on which he relied are examined. One inspiring contemporaneous discourse was the Finnish hygienic discourse and the improvement of the nation’s health, towards which Tanner leaned. He reproduced aspects of the more aggressive eugenic discourse articulated by his ethnic peers, the Finland-Swedes, but the discourse on their racial superiority was unusable, given the agenda of his book, to elevate the Skolt Sami in the racial hierarchies. The economic organization of society was decisive for Tanner, rather than race, making him a Social evolutionist. Article in Journal/Newspaper sami Unknown Arctic and North 27 143 164 |
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The article charts a previously lesser-known aspect of research on the Skolt Sami by Väinö Tanner — his ideas on the Skolt Sami as a race. Tanner’s place in the scholarly field of racial theorizing and the discursive resources on which he relied are examined. One inspiring contemporaneous discourse was the Finnish hygienic discourse and the improvement of the nation’s health, towards which Tanner leaned. He reproduced aspects of the more aggressive eugenic discourse articulated by his ethnic peers, the Finland-Swedes, but the discourse on their racial superiority was unusable, given the agenda of his book, to elevate the Skolt Sami in the racial hierarchies. The economic organization of society was decisive for Tanner, rather than race, making him a Social evolutionist. |
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