Swedish_Society_for_Anthropology_and_Geography Knowpia

*Kritisk Etnografi*
Discipline	Social anthropology, ethnography
Language	English
Edited by	Sten Hagberg, Jörgen Hellman
Publication details
History	2018–present
Publisher	Swedish Society for Anthropology and Geography (SSAG); Academic Archive Online (DiVa);
Frequency	Biannually
Open access	Yes
Standard abbreviations;
ISO 4	Krit. Etnogr.
Indexing;
ISSN	2003-1173;
OCLC no.	1048148325
Links
	Journal homepage; Academic Archive Online;

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.^[1]

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 edit

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.^[2]

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.^[3] 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 edit

The following people are among the recipients of the society's awards:^[4]

Vega Medal edit

Retzius Medal edit

1913: Oscar Montelius
1920: Arthur Evans
1923: Aurel Stein
1925: Johan Gunnar Andersson
1930: Erland Nordenskiöld
1967: Walter Christaller
1969: David Hannerberg
1973: Torsten Hägerstrand
1976: William William-Olsson
1978: Wolfgang Hartke
1985: Akin Mabogunje
1988: Fredrik Barth
1989: David Harvey
1989: Sven Godlund
1991: Allan Pred
1992: Jack Goody
1994: Peter Haggett
1995: Veena Das
1997: Peter Gould
1998: David Maybury-Lewis
2000: Erik Bylund
2001: Sherry Ortner
2003: Doreen Massey
2004: Tim Ingold
2006: Gunnar Törnqvist
2007: John and Jean Comaroff
2009: Allen J. Scott
2010: Ulf Hannerz
2012: Don Mitchell
2013: Paul Stoller

Gold Medal edit

Kritisk Etnografi edit

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.

References edit

Footnotes edit

^ Culin 1906, p. 151.
^ Helmfrid 2004, p. 172.
^ Kleen 2015.
^ SSAG 2018, pp. 1–3.
^ "David Montgomery awarded 2020 Vega Medal".

Sources edit

Culin, S. (Jan–Mar 1906). "Hjalmar Stolpe". Am. Anthropol. 8 (1): 150–156. doi:10.1525/aa.1906.8.1.02a00160. JSTOR 659172.
Helmfrid, S. (2004). "Geography in Sweden". Belg. J. Geogr. 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.