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

Charles King

2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner A century ago, everyone knew that people were fated by their race, sex, and nationality to be more or less intelligent, nurturing, or warlike. But Columbia University professor Franz Boas looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Racial categories, he...

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The Ezra Klein Show

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The Ezra Klein Show

King's book explored the early20thcentury anthropologists who reshaped ideas about race, sex and gender.

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One is Charles King's Gods of the Upper Air, which is a history of anthropology and relativism.

— Episode: The Spectacle of the G.O.P.'s Shrinking...

Episode: The Spectacle of the G.O.P.'s Shrinking Tent

King's book explored the early20thcentury anthropologists who reshaped ideas about race, sex and gender.

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One is Charles King's Gods of the Upper Air, which is a history of anthropology and relativism.

It's about the development of an antiracist idea in opposition to the kind of racial hierarchies that had dominated in science before the early 20th century.

KILL TONY

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KILL TONY

Zach Hedrick mentioned this book while talking about his wrestling name, "Ather" - he said he'd read it, and thought his name was supposed to be pronounced "Ather" rather than "Hedger".

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I read "God of Upper Air". I was actually pronounced Ather, and I was like, I was calling Ather instead, so I was with that.

— Episode: #649 - HARLAND WILLIAMS + YANNIS PAPPAS

Episode: #649 - HARLAND WILLIAMS + YANNIS PAPPAS

Zach Hedrick mentioned this book while talking about his wrestling name, "Ather" - he said he'd read it, and thought his name was supposed to be pronounced "Ather" rather than "Hedger".

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I read "God of Upper Air". I was actually pronounced Ather, and I was like, I was calling Ather instead, so I was with that.

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