Bibliograph

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

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

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-406) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

platesillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Gods of the upper air

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1109765676

Responsibility statement

Charles King

Sub title

how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century

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

Table Of Contents

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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