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

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

According to The Books Insider's catalog data, The Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century runs 13.6 hours as an unabridged audiobook, narrated by January LaVoy (about 9 hours at 1.5× playback speed).

13.6listening hrs
Social Sciencestore shelf
2019released
Free for new listeners

The instrument When will you finish it?

Based on 13.6 hours of listening.

Days to finish The Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century at common listening paces
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30 min / day28 days
1 hour / day14 days
2 hours / day7 days
1 hour / day at 1.5×10 days

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What our data says

  • At 13.6 hours, it runs longer than 90% of the 9,905 Social Science audiobooks in our catalog.

More narrated by January LaVoy

January LaVoy narrates 468 unabridged audiobooks in our catalog, 4,610 hours in all.

All January LaVoy audiobooks, measured

Computed from 409,794 English-language unabridged audiobooks in The Books Insider catalog (store data read November 3, 2026). Lengths are the store's own running times. Methodology.

About this listen

The Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century is an audiobook by Charles King: a 13.6-hour unabridged recording, read by January LaVoy, released August 6, 2019, on the Social Science and The Americas shelves.

The listen at a glance

Length
13.6 hrs
Narrated by
January LaVoy
Released
August 6, 2019
Format
Unabridged audiobook
Language
English
Store shelves
Social Science, The Americas, World
ISBN
9780593146729

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Questions listeners ask

How long is The Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century as an audiobook?

The Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century runs 13.6 hours unabridged. At 1.5× speed that drops to roughly 9 hours.

Is The Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century free as an audiobook?

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

The Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century is narrated by January LaVoy.

Is The Gods of the Upper Air: How a Circle of Renegade Anthropologists Reinvented Race, Sex, and Gender in the Twentieth Century worth listening to at 1.5× speed?

At 1.5× you'd finish in about 9 hours, saving 4.5 hours.