Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King

Gods of the Upper Air by Charles King

King tells the story of Franz Boas and the circle of anthropologists around him — including Margaret Mead and Zora Neale Hurston — who challenged the scientific racism of their era by insisting culture, not biology, explained human differences, work that reshaped how the twentieth century understood race, gender and sexuality.

The book combines intellectual history with vivid biography, following these researchers into remote fieldwork and fierce academic battles against eugenics-influenced mainstream science, showing how genuinely dangerous and unpopular their now-foundational ideas once were.

A National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, a group biography of anthropology's most consequential rebels.

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