The reinvention of humanity : a story of race, sex, gender and the discovery of culture.
The reinvention of humanity : a story of race, sex, gender and the discovery of culture.
The reinvention of humanity : a story of race, sex, gender and the discovery of culture.
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London: The Bodley Head, 2019.
Date
2019.
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G 2020/1045
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Language
English
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Physical content
1 volume ; 24 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
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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.
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London: The Bodley Head, 2019.
Date Published
2019.
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The Reinvention of Humanity tells the story of a small circle of renegade scientist-explorers who changed something profound: what it means to be normal. In the early twentieth century, these pioneering anthropologists, many of them women, made intrepid journeys that overturned our assumptions about race, sexuality, gender and the nature of human d...
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The reinvention of humanity : a story of race, sex, gender and the discovery of culture.
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ebook version : 9781473547896
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G 2020/1045
Record Identifier
74VKaZkX8orA
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaZkX8orA
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ISBN
1847924492
1847924506
9781847924506
9781847924490 (hbk.)
DDC
301.0922
MMS ID
991024292683702626
