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Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography

Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography is a science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography rather than just read about it. In short: The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG; Swedish: Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi) is a scientific learned society founded in December 1877. It was established after a rearrangement of various sections of the Anthropological Society, which was formed in 1873 by Hjalmar Stolpe, Hans Hildebrand, Oscar Montelius, and Gustaf Retzius.

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Reference excerpt

The Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG; Swedish: Svenska Sällskapet för Antropologi och Geografi) is a scientific learned society founded in December 1877. It was established after a rearrangement of various sections of the Anthropological Society, which was formed in 1873 by Hjalmar Stolpe, Hans Hildebrand, Oscar Montelius, and Gustaf Retzius. The society functions as a link between science and the public, especially in the subjects of anthropology and geography. It awards research fellowships, organizes excursions and lectures, and hands out awards including the Vega Medal and Retzius Medal. In 1880, the society published the first edition of the Swedish yearbook Ymer, and it has published the international journal Geografiska Annaler since 1919, a publication that is divided between physical geography and human geography. In 2018, it established Kritisk Etnografi, an academic journal of ethnography.

Society awards The society created the Vega Medal in 1881, on the occasion of Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld's return to Stockholm after the Vega expedition – his discovery of the Northeast Passage. Since then, the Vega Medal has been awarded to an outstanding physical geographer roughly every three years. In the intervening years, the society has awarded the Anders Retzius Medal to a geographer or anthropologist. In 2015, the Society decided that awarding a medal named after Retzius was inappropriate; his racial studies—including a collection of skulls of indigenous peoples—are viewed with disapproval by modern anthropologists. Thereafter, the Retzius Medal was renamed the SSAG medal, and it was given to Didier Fassin in 2016. The society's awards are handed out by the King of Sweden on 24 April, the anniversary of Nordenskiöld's return to Stockholm.

Recipients The following people are among the recipients of the society's awards:

Vega Medal

Retzius Medal

Gold Medal

Kritisk Etnografi

Kritisk Etnografi (Swedish for "critical ethnography"), subtitled Swedish Journal of Anthropology, is a bi-annual peer-reviewed, open-access, online-only, academic journal on the subjects of anthropology and ethnography, owned and published by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in collaboration with DiVA, an online archive maintained by Uppsala University. Its first issue was launched on 15 August 2018.

See also List of geographical societies List of anthropology awards List of geography awards

References

Footnotes

Sources Culin, S. (Jan–Mar 1906). "Hjalmar Stolpe". American Anthropologist. 8 (1): 150–156. doi:10.1525/aa.1906.8.1.02a00160. JSTOR 659172. Helmfrid, S. (2004). "Geography in Sweden". Belgeo. 5 (1): 163–174. doi:10.4000/belgeo.10085. ISSN 2294-9135. Kleen, B. (7 March 2015). "Stopp för medalj till rasforskarens minne". Dagens Nyheter (in Swedish). Retrieved 2 April 2015. "Tidigare medaljörer" (PDF) (in Swedish). Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography. August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2019.

External links Official website (in Swedish and English) Works by the Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography at Open Library

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography

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Example 2 — changing one variable

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Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography

In research: Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography appears in science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1877 establishments in Sweden, Anthropology-related professional associations, Geographic societies, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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