Gods of the Upper Air
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What’s it about?
How a circle of renegade anthropologists, led by Franz Boas, dismantled myths of race and gender, proving culture—not biology—shapes who we are.
You’ll learn
- Culture, not biology, explains human diversity
- Adolescence is not universally turbulent
- What's 'normal' varies across cultures
- Race is a social fiction, not a biological fact