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100 1  King, Charles,|d1967-|eauthor. 
245 10 Gods of the upper air :|bhow a circle of renegade 
       anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the 
       twentieth century /|cCharles King. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York  :|bDoubleday,|c2019. 
264  4 |c©2019 
300    xii, 431 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
336    still image|bsti|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [351]-406) and 
       index. 
505 0  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. 
520    "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. 
520    A century ago, everyone knew that people were fated by 
       their race, sex, and nationality to be more or less 
       intelligent, nurturing, or warlike. But Columbia 
       University professor Franz Boas looked at the data and 
       decided everyone was wrong. Racial categories, he insisted,
       were biological fictions. Cultures did not come in neat 
       packages labeled "primitive" or "advanced." What counted 
       as a family, a good meal, or even common sense was a 
       product of history and circumstance, not of nature. In 
       Gods of the Upper Air, a masterful narrative history of 
       radical ideas and passionate lives, Charles King shows how
       these intuitions led to a fundamental reimagining of human
       diversity. Boas's students were some of the century's most
       colorful figures and unsung visionaries: Margaret Mead, 
       the outspoken field researcher whose Coming of Age in 
       Samoa is among the most widely read works of social 
       science of all time; Ruth Benedict, the great love of 
       Mead's life, whose research shaped post-Second World War 
       Japan; Ella Deloria, the Dakota Sioux activist who 
       preserved the traditions of Native Americans on the Great 
       Plains; and Zora Neale Hurston, whose studies under Boas 
       fed directly into her now classic novel, Their Eyes Were 
       Watching God. Together, they mapped civilizations from the
       American South to the South Pacific and from Caribbean 
       islands to Manhattan's city streets, and unearthed an 
       essential fact buried by centuries of prejudice: that 
       humanity is an undivided whole. Their revolutionary 
       findings would go on to inspire the fluid conceptions of 
       identity we know today. Rich in drama, conflict, 
       friendship, and love, Gods of the Upper Air is a brilliant
       and groundbreaking history of American progress and the 
       opening of the modern mind.  
600 10 Boas, Franz,|d1858-1942. 
600 10 Mead, Margaret,|d1901-1978. 
600 10 Benedict, Ruth,|d1887-1948. 
600 10 Deloria, Ella Cara. 
600 10 Hurston, Zora Neale. 
650    Ethnology|xStudy and teaching|zUnited States|xHistory
       |y20th Century. 
650  0 Anthropologists|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650    Culture|xStudy and teaching|zUnited States|xHistory|y20th 
       Century. 
650  0 Women anthropologists|vBiography. 
650  0 Anthropology|xResearch. 
655  7 Biographies.|2lcgft 
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