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Women of the Forest (Columbia Classics in Anthropology)
Women of the Forest - Columbia Classics in Anthropology Author:Yolanda Murphy, Robert Murphy 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 boo... more »k features a new critical foreword written collectively by respected anthropologists who were all students of the Murphys.« less