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"[Hecht] brings wit and enthusiasm to her densely packed tale of the freethinking anthropologists, who first knew each other as distraught republicans during the Second Empire." -- Nina C. Ayoub, Chronicle of Higher Education
"Hecht is... a very good writer and a brilliant researcher. Highly recommended for all academic libraries." -- Library Journal
"A fascinating glimpse of a little-known chapter in French history." -- Publishers Weekly
"Clearly, this is a superb work, one that captures a major moment in French and European thought with thorough scholarship and literary grace. Highly recommended." -- Choice
"A comprehensively researched, carefully contextualized, engagingly narrated, and provocatively revelatory book about an underappreciated episode in the history of anthropology and religion." -- George W. Stocking, Journal of Anthropological Research
"Jennifer Hecht's endlessly fascinating book...A great gift for that special intellectual history buff in your life." -- The Society of Mutual Autopsy
"The often poignant life-histories she recounts...are one of the real pleasures on offer in this wide-ranging, original study of late nineteenth-century French anthropologists." -- Elizabeth Williams, American Historical Review
"The book makes a significant contribution and should be of interest not only to historians but to a wider readership interested in the intersection of culture, science, and politics. Hecht has produced a work of impressive erudition." -- Susan Terrio, Anthropological Quarterly
"Hecht is a vivid writer with a keen eye for the evocative anecdote and the unexpected interconnection.... Hecht's book will make provocative reading for historians of science, religion, and republican politics." -- Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
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"The result is a well-researched, persuasive, and engaging contribution to the cultural history of modern France." -- John I. Brooks III, Journal of Modern History
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