Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century Book by Charles King

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✅ Dimensions - 5.5 x 8.26 inches

✅ Language - ‎English

✅ Pages amount 472

✅ Summary

Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King explores the groundbreaking work of a group of 20th-century anthropologists who challenged prevailing notions of race, gender, and cultural superiority. The book focuses on Franz Boas and his students, including Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Zora Neale Hurston, as they revolutionized anthropology by advocating for cultural relativism—the idea that cultures should be understood on their own terms rather than judged against Western norms.

Through their fieldwork and studies, they debunked racist theories of biological determinism, revealing the fluidity of cultural practices and social constructs. King weaves a compelling narrative of their lives, struggles, and the profound impact their work had on the understanding of human diversity, reshaping modern thought on identity and humanity