Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
"Gods of the Upper Air" by Charles King is a captivating history of the development of cultural anthropology in the twentieth century, focusing on Franz Boas and his circle of visionary students who challenged prevailing notions of race, sex, and nationality, promoting a view of human diversity as a cultural and historical construct rather than a biological one.
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