The Reinvention of Humanity

_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 assum ...