Women of the Forest

Women of the Forest
ISBN-10
0231132328
ISBN-13
9780231132329
Category
Social Science
Pages
262
Language
English
Published
2004
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Authors
Robert Francis Murphy, Yolanda Murphy

Description

One of the first works to focus on gender in anthropology, this book remains an important teaching tool on gender and life in the Amazon. Women of the Forest covers Yolanda and Robert Murphy's year of fieldwork among the Mundurucú people of Brazil in 1952, taking into account the historical, ecological, and cultural setting. The book features a new critical foreword written collectively by respected anthropologists who were all students of the Murphys.

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