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100 1 _aKing, Charles,
_d1967-
245 1 0 _aGods of the upper air :
_bhow a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century /
_cCharles King.
250 _aFirst edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bDoubleday,
_c2019.
300 _axii, 431 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates :
_bblack and white illustrations ;
_c25 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent.
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia.
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [387]-406) and index.
505 0 _aAway -- 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.
520 _a"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.
600 1 0 _aBoas, Franz,
_d1858-1942
_qBiography.
650 0 _aAnthropologists
_zUnited States
_vBiography.
650 0 _aWomen anthropologists
_vBiography.
650 0 _aAnthropology
_xResearch
_vBiography.
999 _c236457
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