# Gods of the Upper Air

Charles King discussed his book, "Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex and Gender in the 20th Century," a group portrait of Franz Boas (1858-1942), the pioneering German-American professor of anthropology at Columbia University, and some of his most eminent students: Margaret Mead, Zora Neale Hurston, Ruth Benedict and Ella Cara Deloria. Boas rejected the then-popular notion of cultural hierarchies and taught that cultural differences are not the result of biological differences, such as race.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2019
- By: Library Of Congress. European Division
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/2024696701/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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