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 - 0385542194 AV - GN308.3 .U6 K55 2019 PY - 2019/// CY - New York PB - Doubleday KW - Boas, Franz, KW - Anthropologists KW - United States KW - Biography KW - Women anthropologists KW - Anthropology KW - Research 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 dazzling 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 sweeping chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other cultures and ourselves."--Publisher's description ER -