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

by Charles King

Book Overview

2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award

From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the adventurous scientists who pioneered it--a sweeping chronicle of discovery and the fascinating origin story of our multicultural world.

A century ago, everyone knew that people were fated by their race, sex, and nationality to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0385542194
• ISBN13: 9780385542197
• Release Date: August 2019
• Publisher: Doubleday Books
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.1"