Bertil Lundman

Bertil J. Lundman (1899, Malmö – 1993) was a Swedish anthropologist. He is best known for having created a racial classification system of Europeans in his book The Races and Peoples of Europe (1977).

Theory of European races

Bertil Lundman's book The Races and Peoples of Europe distinguishes several racial types^[1]:

1. Nordid, including the subraces Falid, North Atlantid and Scando-Nordid
2. Paleo-Atlantid
3. West-Alpine
4. East-Alpine (Gorid)
5. West-Mediterranean (Ibero-Insular)
6. Berid
7. East-Mediterranean, including the subraces Pontid, Iranid, North-Indid, Gangid, Nesid, Saharid, Aegyptid
8. Arabid, including the Syrid subrace
9. Taurid, including subraces Dinarid, Armenid and Carpathid
10. Volgid, including the subraces Sudeten and Pre-Pontid
11. East Baltid, including the subraces Tavastid (Sub-Nordid) and Savolaxid
12. Scando-Lappid (South-Lappid, Samid)
13. Mongolid strains: Kumid and Taigid

Bibliography

• Västmanlandstyper, Julläsning, Västmanlands läns tidning (1931)
• Folktypsundersökningar i Dalarna I-IX, Dalarnas hembygsbok (1932--38, 1940, 1946)
• Nordens rastyper, (1940)
• Jordens människoraser och folkstammar, (1943-44)
• Dalaallmogens antropologi (Doctoral dissertation), (1945)
• On the Origin of the Lapps, Ethnos (1946)
• Nutidens människoraser (1946)
• Raser och folkstockar i Baltoskandia (1946, 1967)
• Ergebnisse der anthropologischen Lappenforchung, Anthropos (1952)
• Umriss der Rassenkunde des Menschen in geschichtlicher Zeit (1952)
• Stammeskunde der Völker (1961)
• Blutgruppenforschung und geograpische Anthropologie (1967)
• The Races and Peoples of Europe (translation) (1977)
• Minnen (Memoirs) (1987)
• Jordens folkstammar (1988)

Footnotes

1. ^ Lundman, Bertil J. - The Races and Peoples of Europe (New York: IAAEE. 1977), The Living Races and Peoples of Europe:[1]

External links

• The Races and Peoples of Europe
• The Racial History of Scandinavia (1962)

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