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Aug 6, · Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century Aug 06, , Doubleday hardcover. Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century - Ebook written by Charles King. Read this book using . 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. Dec 17, · In Gods of the Upper Air, Charles King departs from his field of political science to chronicle the birth of cultural anthropology at the start of the twentieth century, writing about the scientists who “found themselves on the front lines of the greatest moral battle of our time: the struggle to prove that—despite difference of skin color. Aug 5, · From the s through the s, Boas and his circle of renegade anthropologists — as noted in King's subtitle — helped in the U.S. to establish anthropology as a discipline and confronted the. Aug 6, · 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 s and s--a sweeping chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other cultures and ourselves. 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. An intellectual adventure story of the best sort — elegantly written, thought-provoking, and full of biographical riches. Aug 6, · Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century. 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.