Gods of the Upper Air
Gods of the Upper Air
The Revolutionary Anthropologists Who Transformed Our Understanding of Race, Gender, and Human Culture
About This Book
Gods of the Upper Air (2019) chronicles Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Zora Neale Hurston, and their colleagues as they dismantled racist pseudoscience and built modern cultural anthropology from the ground up. Through their fieldwork, personal relationships, and intellectual breakthroughs, this group fundamentally altered how we understand race, gender, and sexual identity.
Who Should Read This?
- Anyone studying anthropology, sociology, or gender studies
- Readers who admire Zora Neale Hurston’s work
- People exploring America’s racial history
- Those interested in how scientific ideas shape social policy
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