| Edition |
First edition. |
| Physical Description |
xii, 431 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| 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 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. |
| Note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [387]-406) and index. |
| 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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Biographies.
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