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

By:

King, Charles, 1967- [author]

Material type:

TextPublisher: New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020Copyright date: ©2019Edition: First Anchor books editionDescription: xii, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780525432326
0525432329

Other title:

How a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the 20th century

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DDC classification:

306 301.092/2 B 23

LOC classification:

GN308.3.U6 K55 2020

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

Summary: "A ... 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 ... chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other cultures and ourselves"--Publisher's description

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Cover image	Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Materials specified	Vol info	URL	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds	Item hold queue priority	Course reserves
	Main	RTC Library Main opac		Main TEST		306 KIN		177664			Available			30019070

Total holds: 0

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-406) and index

"A ... 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 ... chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other cultures and ourselves"--Publisher's description