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King, Charles, 1967-

Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century / How a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the 20th century Charles King - First Anchor books edition - xii, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-406) and index

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

"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

ISBN: 9780525432326 0525432329

Subjects--Personal Names:
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 --Influence

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Anthropology--Research
Anthropologists--United States--Biography
Ethnology--Study and teaching--History--United States--20th century
Women anthropologists--Biography
Culture--Study and teaching--History--United States--20th century

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Biographies.
History.
Biographies.

LC Class. No.: GN308.3.U6 / K55 2020

Dewey Class. No.: 306 301.092/2 B