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020			_a9781847924506
037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books,Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a301 _bKIN/RE
100			_aKing,Charles
245			_aREINVENTION OF HUMANITY : Story of Race, Sex, Gender and the Discovery of Culture
250			_a1
260			_aLondon _bBodley Head _c2019/01/01
300			_g431
500			_a"The Reinvention of Humanity tells the story of a small circle of renegade scientist-explorers who changed something profound: what it means to be normal. In the early twentieth century, these pioneering anthropologists, many of them women, made intrepid journeys that overturned our assumptions about race, sexuality, gender and the nature of human diversity, paving the way for the civil rights movements that followed and sparking a debate that continues to this day. From the Arctic to the South Pacific, from Haiti to Japan, they immersed themselves in distant or isolated communities, where they observed and documented radically different approaches to love and child-rearing, family structure and the relationship between women and men. With this evidence they were able to challenge the eras scientific consensus and deep-rooted Western belief that intelligence, ability and character are determined by a persons race or sex, and show that the roles people play in society are shaped in fact according to the immense variety of human cultures. Theirs were boundary-breaking lives, filled with scandal, romance, rivalry and tragedy. Those of Margaret Mead and her essential partner Ruth Benedict resulted in fame and notoriety. Those of Native American activist Ella Deloria and the African-American writer and ethnographer Zora Neale Hurston ended in poverty and obscurity; here their achievements are brought fully into the light for the first time. All were outsiders, including the controversial founder of their field, the wild-haired professor, German immigrant and revolutionary thinker, Franz Boas. The Reinvention of Humanity takes us on their globe-spanning adventures and shows how, together, these courageous and unconventional people created the moral universe we inhabit today." --
505			_aAway -- 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.
650			_aAnthropologists
650			_aAnthropology--Research
650			_aWomen anthropologists
650			_aUnited States
650			_aMead, Margaret, 1901-1978
650			_aDeloria, Ella Cara
650			_aHurston, Zora Neale
650			_aBoas, Franz, 1858-1942
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