TY  - BOOK
AU  - King,Charles
TI  - Gods of the upper air: how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century 
SN  - 9780525432326
AV  - GN308.3.U6 K55 2020
U1  - 306301.092/2B 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Anchor Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
KW  - Boas, Franz,
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Research
KW  - Anthropologists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Ethnology
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women anthropologists
KW  - Culture
KW  - Biographies
KW  - fast
KW  - lcgft
N1  - 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
N2  - "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
ER  -