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

byCharles King

Focused on how a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century, Gods of the Upper Air brings Charles King's historical account to a complex and consequential subject. The narrative identifies the people, decisions, and pressures that shaped the subject, then places those developments within the connected fields of history and social science. The result avoids a single easy lesson, emphasizing instead how circumstances, institutions, and individual choices interacted over time. Readers finish with a sharper understanding of the subject and why its consequences still deserve attention.

Publisher

Anchor

Publication date

Jul 14, 2020

Format

Print edition

Pages

480

ISBN

9780525432326