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Reviews are in the process of being added; book titles are hyperlinked to an outside reviewer or other source and my own reviews are linked as indicated.  The Alehouse at the End of the World by Stevan Allred (2018) All the Birds in the Sky by Charlie Jane Anders (2016) All the Ever Afters: The Untold Story of Cinderella's Stepmother by Danielle Teller (2018) Apothecary Melchoir by Indrek Hargla (2017) The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga (2020) The Bear by Andrew Krivak (2020) The Bear and the Nightingale (Winternight Trilogy #1) by Katherine Arden (2017) | My review:  https://feliciareviewsbooks.blogspot.com/2020/02/the-bear-and-nightingale-winternight.html The Beast's Heart by Leif Shallcross (2019) Beauty is a Wound by Eka Kurniawan (2002) The Bird King: A Novel by G.Willow Wilson (2019) Bird Summons by Leila Aboula (2020) The Blue Fox by Sjon (2003) The Boatman's Daughter by Andy Davidson (2020) Bohemian Gospel (Bohemian Trilogy #

I've never been fond of the discipline of Anthropology. I understood its merits from a distance, but I couldn't bring myself to try to comprehend how someone - a scientist, no less - could remain morally sound by their objectification of a group of people held steadfastly together by a supposedly empirical view of race, ethnicity, culture, and/or gender. That is precisely the reason why I needed to read this book on the development and evolution of Anthropology in the 20th century. Gods of the Upper Air: How A Circle Of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century (2019) helped me understand that the Anthropological mission, as shaped by Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Zora Neale Hurston and still others was - and is today because of them - a scientific inquiry aimed to breach ideologies of racism and sexism that led to some of the worst disasters humanity has faced. Author Charles King uses a historical approach in this nonfiction text, sh