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  • Author(s): WILSON, JENNIFER (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    Nation. 5/18/2020, Vol. 310 Issue 14, p42-45. 4p. 1 Color Photograph.
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      Books & the Arts In 1949 a Columbia anthropologist named Geoffrey Gorer published an essay in his study The People of Great Russia, in which he attempted to provide insight into why those living in the Soviet Union were not more resistant to Stalinist authoritarianism. Besides Gorer, Mead, and Benedict, Franz Boas, Zora Neale Hurston, Ella Cara Deloria, and Edward Sapir all considered themselves cultural anthropologists. Boas referred to himself and his students at Columbia as "our little group", and in a new book, Gods of the Upper Air, Georgetown professor Charles King puts their lives, habits, and missteps on full display. Boas, Mead, Benedict, and their circle sought to show the fallacy of biological and physical difference, but they also created forms of categorization without questioning the underlying biases that might inform them. [Extracted from the article]
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