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Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century (2019. Auflage)

von Charles King (Autor)

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"At the end of the 19th century, everyone knew that people were defined by their race and sex and were fated by birth and biology to be more or less intelligent, able, nurturing, or warlike. But one rogue researcher looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Franz Boas was the very image of a mad scientist: a wild-haired immigrant with a thick German accent. By the 1920s he was also the foundational thinker and public face of a new school of thought at Columbia University called cultural anthropology. He proposed that cultures did not exist on a continuum from primitive to advanced. Instead, every society solves the same basic problems -- from childrearing to how to live well -- with its own set of rules, beliefs, and taboos. Boas's students were some of the century's intellectual stars: Margaret Mead, the outspoken field researcher whose Coming of Age in Samoa is one of the most widely read works of social science of all time; Ruth Benedict, the great love of Mead's life, whose research shaped post-Second World War Japan; Ella Deloria, the Dakota Sioux activist who preserved the traditions of Native Americans of the Great Plains; and Zora Neale Hurston, whose studies under Boas fed directly into her now-classic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Together, they mapped vanishing civilizations from the Arctic to the South Pacific and overturned the relationship between biology and behavior. Their work reshaped how we think of women and men, normalcy and deviance, and re-created our place in a world of many cultures and value systems. Gods of the Upper Air is a page-turning narrative of radical ideas and adventurous lives, a history rich in scandal, romance, and rivalry, and a genesis story of the fluid conceptions of identity that define our present moment"--… (mehr)
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Titel:Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century
Autoren:Charles King (Autor)
Info:Doubleday (2019), Edition: 1st Edition, 448 pages
Sammlungen:Kindle, Borrowed, Lese gerade
Bewertung:*****
Tags:non-fiction, anthropology - history

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

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Lovely book about the Columbia University anthropologists led by Franz Boas who developed important ideas about our common humanity. I learned a ton of history from the book. Was great to read after Daniel Okrent’s “The Guarded Gate” which was also a fine book covering the same time period.

Charles King also wrote a very different book that I loved, about Istanbul and its history, called “Midnight at the Pera Palace” — highly recommended. ( )
  steve02476 | Jan 3, 2023 |
Fascinating! Not easy to read (for me, at least) but more than worth it.A history of the most important persons in Anthropology, most of whom were women. ( )
  TheoSmit | Apr 18, 2022 |
A really fascinating look at the intersecting lives of some of the key figures in the establishment of cultural anthropology in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Charles King focuses largely on the circle that formed around German-born Columbia University professor Franz Boas, one which saw their burgeoning field as not just “a science but also as a state of mind.” This is not a topic I knew a huge amount about, and I appreciated the introduction to how Boas—plus Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Zora Neale Hurston, and Ella Deloria—helped to shape popular thinking about many now well-known concepts such as cultural relativism. King is perhaps a bit easier in his assessments/judgement of their work and its legacy than is quite earned, but still very interesting.

(And hey, academics a hundred years ago being over-worked and under-paid! Plus ça change.) ( )
  siriaeve | Mar 28, 2022 |
A concise and tightly drawn history of anthropology. 2 parts adventure tale, and 1 part science book. I couldn't put it down. ( )
  jscape2000 | Mar 23, 2022 |
The story of the founding of anthropology as we know it today.

I really appreciated the impression from this book that even though Franz Boas founded what is today a powerful school of thought, to everyone else in his world, he looked very aimless. His rich father paid to send him abroad because otherwise there'd be nothing on his resume, that kind of thing. I don't know whether to read a children's book narrative into this -- that if you just persist in following your dreams you'll be successful -- or whether to read a story of inherent unworthiness of anthropology as a field -- or whether to read a story of accidentally stumbling into inspiring a new view of reality -- or something else entirely.

Abandoned regardless, because I found it much too dry, academic, and interpersonal for a world I'm unfamiliar with, despite the book's exciting title. (I also found I was more interested in Margaret Mead than Franz Boas, and she doesn't appear in the beginning because she's an inheritor of his rather than a peer -- not something I'd realized when I picked up the book). This book is best understood as a history for people who are already interested in the early days of anthropology. ( )
  pammab | Dec 5, 2021 |
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"At the end of the 19th century, everyone knew that people were defined by their race and sex and were fated by birth and biology to be more or less intelligent, able, nurturing, or warlike. But one rogue researcher looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Franz Boas was the very image of a mad scientist: a wild-haired immigrant with a thick German accent. By the 1920s he was also the foundational thinker and public face of a new school of thought at Columbia University called cultural anthropology. He proposed that cultures did not exist on a continuum from primitive to advanced. Instead, every society solves the same basic problems -- from childrearing to how to live well -- with its own set of rules, beliefs, and taboos. Boas's students were some of the century's intellectual stars: Margaret Mead, the outspoken field researcher whose Coming of Age in Samoa is one of the most widely read works of social science of all time; Ruth Benedict, the great love of Mead's life, whose research shaped post-Second World War Japan; Ella Deloria, the Dakota Sioux activist who preserved the traditions of Native Americans of the Great Plains; and Zora Neale Hurston, whose studies under Boas fed directly into her now-classic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Together, they mapped vanishing civilizations from the Arctic to the South Pacific and overturned the relationship between biology and behavior. Their work reshaped how we think of women and men, normalcy and deviance, and re-created our place in a world of many cultures and value systems. Gods of the Upper Air is a page-turning narrative of radical ideas and adventurous lives, a history rich in scandal, romance, and rivalry, and a genesis story of the fluid conceptions of identity that define our present moment"--

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