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Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century Cover Image Book

Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century / Charles King.

King, Charles, 1967- (author.).

Summary:

"A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s--a sweeping chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other cultures and ourselves."--Publisher's description.

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  • ISBN: 9780385542197
  • ISBN: 0385542194
  • Physical Description: xii, 431 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-406) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Away -- Baffin Island -- "All is individuality" -- Science and circuses -- Headhunters -- American empire -- "A girl as frail as Margaret" -- Coming of age -- Masses and mountaintops -- Indian country -- Living theory -- Spirit realms -- War and nonsense -- Home.

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Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.
Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948.
Deloria, Ella Cara.
Hurston, Zora Neale.
Anthropologists > United States > Biography.
Women anthropologists > Biography.
Anthropology > Research.
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Biographies.

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