GODS OF THE UPPER AIR

From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the adventurous scientists who pi oneered ita sweeping chronicle of discovery and the fascinating origin story of our multicultural world.A century ago, everyone kne w that people were fated by their race, sex, and nationality to be more or less intelligent, nurturing, or warlike. But Columbia Uni versity professor Franz Boas looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Racial categories, he insisted, were biological fict ions. Cul...[Read more]