The Reinvention of Humanity - King, Charles
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_THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_
_SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE 2020_
The riveting story of the pioneers who redefined conceptions of 'normality' in the early twentieth century.
Under the guiding eye of cultural anthropologist Franz Boas, these scientist-explorers - most of them women - made intrepid journeys into far-flung communities all over the world, where they documented radically different social approaches that overturned Western assumptions about human diversity and challenged the era's scientific consensus.
Here, the boundary-breaking lives and…mehr

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_THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER_

_SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY NAYEF AL-RODHAN PRIZE 2020_

The riveting story of the pioneers who redefined conceptions of 'normality' in the early twentieth century.

Under the guiding eye of cultural anthropologist Franz Boas, these scientist-explorers - most of them women - made intrepid journeys into far-flung communities all over the world, where they documented radically different social approaches that overturned Western assumptions about human diversity and
challenged the era's scientific consensus.

Here, the boundary-breaking lives and achievements of Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, Ella Deloria and Zora Neale Hurston are brought fully into light for the first time, showing how their trailblazing discoveries helped shape the moral universe we inhabit today.

_WINNER OF THE FRANCIS PARKMAN PRIZE 2020_

_FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS 2019_
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Charles King is Professor of International Affairs at Georgetown University, Washington DC, and the author of numerous books, including most recently the New York Times bestseller The Reinvention of Humanity, which won The Francis Parkman Prize for Biography and was shortlisted for the British Academy Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His other books include Midnight at the Pera Palace: The Birth of Modern Istanbul and Odessa: Genius and Death in a City of Dreams, winner of a National Jewish Book Award. His writing has appeared in the TLS, New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic and other publications.
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Magnificent ... In this brilliantly written and deftly organised book, Charles King tells the story of how the study of humankind [was revolutionised] in the first half of the 20th century Kathryn Hughes Guardian