| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xii, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-406) and index. |
| Contents |
Away -- Baffin Island -- "All is individuality" -- Science and circuses -- Headhunters -- American empire -- "A girl as frail as Margaret" -- Coming of age -- Masses and mountaintops -- Indian country -- Living theory -- Spirit realms -- War and nonsense -- Home. |
| Summary |
"A dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American notions of race, gender, and sexuality in the 1920s and 1930s--a sweeping chronicle of how our society began to question the basic ways we understand other cultures and ourselves."--Publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Boas, Franz, 1858-1942.
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Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.
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Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948.
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Deloria, Ella Cara.
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Hurston, Zora Neale.
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Anthropologists -- United States -- Biography.
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Women anthropologists -- Biography.
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Anthropology -- Research.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780385542197 (hardcover) |
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0385542194 (hardcover) |
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9780385542203 (ebook) |
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