Women of the Forest

Women of the Forest
Author: Yolanda Murphy
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780231132329

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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 Mundurucu 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.