02460cam a2200457 i 4500 1163634913 OCoLC 20230801103237.0 200706t20202019nyuaf b 001 0ceng d 9780525432326 (pbk.) 0525432329 (pbk.) (OCoLC)1163634913 (OCoLC)1133277849 (OCoLC)1201528946 IG$ eng rda IG$ YDX BDX OCLCF HPL IAZ OCLCO CDX OCLCO OCLCQ n-us--- GN308.3.U6 K55 2020 306 301.092/2 B 23 King, Charles, 1967- author Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century / Charles King How a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the 20th century First Anchor books edition New York : Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2020 ©2019 xii, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm text txt rdacontent still image sti rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier 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 Boas, Franz, 1858-1942 Influence Anthropology Research Anthropologists United States Biography Ethnology Study and teaching United States History 20th century Women anthropologists Biography Culture Study and teaching United States History 20th century Biographies. fast (OCoLC)fst01919896 History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Biographies. lcgft ddc MAIN 9635 9636 0 0 ddc 0 0 MAIN RTCLIB RTCLIB MAIN 2023-08-01 177664 1 1 306 KIN 30019070 2025-07-04 00:00:00 2023-08-01 2023-08-01 MAIN