Gods of the Upper Air
Subtitle: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Anchor
Published: Jul 14, 2020
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 480
ISBN-13: 9780525432326
Description: "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.
Notes: Source title: Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century