Yolanda Murphy
Yolanda Murphy (born 1925 in New York City) is a cultural anthropologist who is the co-author of classic anthropology text Women of the Forest with her husband, Robert F. Murphy. This text was based on field work done in 1952 among the Mundurucu Indians of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. She met her husband while they were graduate students in at Columbia University. They did extensive field work in Brazil in preparation for writing their seminal work.
She taught at Empire State College (SUNY), and is retired.[1]
Works[]
- Yolanda Murphy, Robert Francis Murphy (2004). Women of the forest. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13233-6.CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)
References[]
- ^ Murphy, Yolanda; Ferguson, Robert Murphy Foreword by R. Brian; Balée, William L.; Chernela, Janet M.; Shapiro, Judith; Johnson, Orna; Gregor, afterword by Thomas A. (December 2004). "Women of the Forest: 30th anniversary edition". Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231132329.
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