Women of the Forest by Yolanda Murphy and Robert F Murphy

Book Description

Secondhand. Very good condition. Minor wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to foredges.

A groundbreaking ethnography, one of the first works to focus on gender in anthropology. 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 how women compensate for their low social position.