Summary of Cultural Relativism drivers -- after Charles King

I have just begun reading Charles King's Gods of the Upper Air, the story of how Franz Boas, the German-born "father of American anthropology," and a small group of like-minded disciples, took on, and debunked, the commonly held beliefs on societal construct, race, sex, and gender.

In the first chapter, King does a masterful job of summarizing the views on society and individuals that held sway at the time and the "animating theory" that drove the "little group" to their competing views on race, sex, and gender. I illustrate the key aspects of the chapter in the charts following.

Compiled from Gods of the Upper Air

Compiled from Gods of the Upper Air

Pictures from wikipedia.com; illustration compiled from
Gods of the Upper Air

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