Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in...
Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in...
Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century / Charles King.
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Publisher
New York : Random House, [2019]
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G 2019/4314
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xii, 431 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : black and white illustrations ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
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.
Publication information
Publisher
New York : Random House, [2019]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2019]
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Scope and Contents
Summary
"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.
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Full title
Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century / Charles King.
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Notes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-406) and index.
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G 2019/4314
Record Identifier
74VKVloVzbod
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVloVzbod
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ISBN
9780385542197 (hardcover)
0385542194 (hardcover)
DDC
301.092
MMS ID
991024263316102626
