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PDF [Download] Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists ReinventedRace, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century PDFPDF [Download] Godsof the Upper Air: Howa Circle of RenegadeAnthropologistsReinvented Race,Sex, and Gender inthe Twentieth CenturyPDFDescriptionâ€œThoughtful, deeply intelligent, and immensely readable.â€•â€”Alison Gopnik,Â The Atlanticâ€œKingâ€s comprehensive archival research illuminates intellectual giants . . . With a light yetunmistakable touch, King connects the dots from Boasâ€s time to ours. He mentions PresidentDonald Trumpâ€s describing of Mexicans as â€˜rapistsâ€ during the kickoff of his presidentialcampaign, and we get the point: The reduction of human beings to typesâ€”people stereotyped asinferior and menacing, deserving of being keep out or cast outâ€”is a clear and present danger.ReadingÂ Gods of the Upper Air, though, provides inspiration. The anthropology of equality tellsus that every population is as fully human as any other, and deserving of understanding andcompassion.â€• â€”Barbara J. King, NPR.org Â â€œ[Gods of the Upper Air] offers a vitallyrelevant way to frame the ugly spectre of racism as it resurfaces in our politics . . . Now, more thanever, we need to recognise how Boas and others developed an alternative vision of humanity.Understanding this oft-ignored intellectual history is a first step towards defending it.â€• â€”GillianTett, Financial Times Â â€œ[King] succeeds in bringing Mead and her fellow travelers into sharpfocus as they pioneered a new field and documented mankindâ€s many-splendored diversity ina positive, rather than a divisive, light.â€• â€”David Holahan, USA Todayâ€œAn intellectualadventure story of the best sortâ€”elegantly written, thought-provoking, and full of biographicalriches.â€• â€”Sarah Bakewell, author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Cafe Â â€œAmasterful history of a group of maverick thinkers in the early 20thÂ century who aimed to dethronethe eugenicistsÂ dominating racial thought. With eugenics ascendant again,Â Kingâ€s story isaÂ vital book for our times.â€• â€”Ibram X. Kendi, author of Stamped from the Beginning: TheDefinitive History of Racist Ideas in America, winner of the 2016 National Book AwardÂ â€œDeeply thought-provoking and brilliantly written, Gods of the Upper Air is a walk in theshoes of giants. Charles King takes you on an unforgettable journey as daring anthropologistsunravel the profound mysteries of culture and mankind, and discover that they, too, were onlyhuman.â€• â€”David Hoffman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Dead Hand and TheBillion Dollar Spy Â â€œThis excitingâ€”even entrancingâ€”story traces the birth of a newscience in the early twentieth century, championed by a scrappy genius who trained a cadre ofbold women for the work. Charles King writes with verve and authority as he follows thenationâ€s first cultural anthropologists to far-flung field sites that suggested antidotes to the
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