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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"-- $c Provided by publisher 520 $a A century ago, everyone knew that people were defined by their race and sex, by birth and biology. But Franz Boas looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. 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 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. -- adapted from jacket 600 10 $a Boas, Franz, $d 1858-1942 $x Influence. 650 0 $a Ethnology $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Culture $x History $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Anthropologists $z United States $v Biography. 650 7 $a 73.01 history of ethnology. $0 (NL-LeOCL)077610369 $2 bcl 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE $x Cultural & Social. $x Cultural & Social. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY $x Expeditions & Discoveries. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY $z United States $x 20th Century. $2 bisacsh 600 17 $a Benedict, Ruth, $d 1887-1948. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00009969 600 17 $a Boas, Franz, $d 1858-1942. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00053322 600 17 $a Deloria, Ella Cara. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00034098 600 17 $a Hurston, Zora Neale. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00040307 600 17 $a Mead, Margaret, $d 1901-1978. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00028824 650 7 $a Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00972484 650 7 $a Ethnology $x Study and teaching. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916166 650 7 $a Culture $x Study and teaching. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00885086 650 7 $a Anthropologists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00810184 650 7 $a Anthropology $x Research. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00810227 650 7 $a Women anthropologists. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01177129 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 650 7 $a Anthropologe $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4142642-3 650 7 $a Kulturanthropologie $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4133903-4 651 7 $a USA $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4078704-7 600 17 $a Benedict, Ruth, $d 1887-1948. $2 naf $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n50029994 600 17 $a Boas, Franz, $d 1858-1942. $2 naf $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80044863 600 17 $a Deloria, Ella Cara. $2 naf $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79043352 600 17 $a Hurston, Zora Neale. $2 naf $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79086453 600 17 $a Mead, Margaret, $d 1901-1978. $2 naf $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78093416 650 7 $a Ethnology. $2 sears 650 7 $a Culture. $2 sears 650 7 $a Anthropologists $v Biography. $2 sears 600 12 $a Benedict, Ruth, $d 1887-1948 600 12 $a Boas, Franz, $d 1858-1942 600 12 $a Deloria, Ella Cara 600 12 $a Hurston, Zora Neale 600 12 $a Mead, Margaret, $d 1901-1978 650 12 $a Anthropology, Cultural $x history. $0 (DNLM)D000884Q000266 650 22 $a Population Groups $x history. $0 (DNLM)D044382Q000266 650 22 $a Gender Identity. $0 (DNLM)D005783 650 22 $a History, 20th Century. $0 (DNLM)D049673 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 4 $a Biographies. 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896 655 7 $a Biography. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423686 655 7 $a Biographies. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a King, Charles, 1967- $t Gods of the upper air. $d New York : Doubleday, [2019] $z 0385542208 $w (OCoLC)1111735485 941 $a 1 $n 1 952 $l VXPE964 $d 20221219101101.0 $n 6 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=2A45FBC2AC3311EB98A411E3203FDB2A 994 $a C0 $b IOZInitiate Another SILO Locator Search