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Women of the Forest (COLUMBIA CLASSICS IN ANTHROPOLOGY) - Hardcover

Murphy, Yolanda; Murphy, Robert

 
9780231132329: Women of the Forest (COLUMBIA CLASSICS IN ANTHROPOLOGY)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0231132328 ISBN 13: 9780231132329
Verlag: COLUMBIA UNIV PR, 2004

Inhaltsangabe

When it originally appeared, this groundbreaking ethnography was one of the first works to focus on gender in anthropology. The thirtieth anniversary edition of Women of the Forest reconfirms the book's importance for contemporary studies on gender and life in the Amazon. The book covers Yolanda and Robert Murphy's year of fieldwork among the Mundurucú people of Brazil in 1952. The Murphy's ethnographic analysis takes into account the historical, ecological, and cultural setting of the Mundurucú, including the mythology surrounding women, women's work and household life, marriage and child rearing, the effects of social change on the female role, sexual antagonism, and the means by which women compensate for their low social position.

The new foreword—written collectively by renowned anthropologists who were all students of the Murphys—is both a tribute to the Murphys and a critical reflection on the continued relevance of their work today.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Yolanda Murphy, previously on the faculty of Empire State College (SUNY), is retired. Robert F. Murphy was professor of anthropology at Columbia University. He was the author of many books and articles, including Headhunter's Heritage: Social and Economic Change Among the Mundurucú Indians and The Body Silent: The Different World of the Disabled, for which he won a Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award.R. Brian Ferguson, editor of the foreword, is professor of anthropology at Rutgers University—Newark. His books include The State, Identity, and Violence and Yanomami Warfare: A Political History.

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Verlag
COLUMBIA UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2004
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0231132328
ISBN 13 
9780231132329
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
262
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Columbia University Press
https://cup.columbia.edu/

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