King, Charles,  1967- <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-406) and index 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/> "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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780525432326 0525432329 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 --Influence
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Anthropology--Research<br/>Anthropologists--United States--Biography<br/>Ethnology--Study and teaching--History--United States--20th century<br/>Women anthropologists--Biography<br/>Culture--Study and teaching--History--United States--20th century
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Biographies.<br/>History.<br/>Biographies.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>GN308.3.U6  / K55 2020 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>306  301.092/2  B