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Kwame Anthony Appiah

Kwame Anthony Appiah teaches philosophy at NYU. His latest books are As If: Idealization and Ideals and The Lies That Bind: Rethinking Identity. (October 2022)

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The Defender of Differences

The Defender of Differences

On Franz Boas and his critics

Franz Boas: The Emergence of the Anthropologist

by Rosemary Lévy Zumwalt

Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century

by Charles King

From Boas to Black Power: Racism, Liberalism, and American Anthropology

by Mark Anderson

May 28, 2020 issue

The Key to All Mythologies

The Key to All Mythologies

Lévi-Strauss: A Biography

by Emmanuelle Loyer, translated from the French by Ninon Vinsonneau and Jonathan Magidoff

Claude Lévi-Strauss: A Critical Study of His Thought

by Maurice Godelier, translated from the French by Nora Scott

February 13, 2020 issue

Surreal Anthropology

Surreal Anthropology

Phantom Africa

by Michel Leiris, translated from the French by Brent Hayes Edwards

March 8, 2018 issue

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