Women of the Forest

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 Munduruc 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.

Yolanda Murphy, previously on the faculty of Empire State College (SUNY), is retired Robert F. Murphy was professor of anthropology at Columbia University R. Brian Ferguson, editor of the foreword, is professor of anthropology at Rutgers University-Newark

Foreword to the Thirtieth Anniversary Edition	p. ix
Preface to the Second Edition	p. lv
Preface to the First Edition	p. lvii
Woman's Day	p. 1
The Land and the People	p. 21
Beyond the Looking Glass	p. 51
Mundurucu Culture	p. 77
Women in Myth and Symbol	p. 113
The Woman's World	p. 137
Women and Married Life	p. 169
Women and Social Change	p. 205
Women and Men	p. 231
Bibliography	p. 259
Index	p. 261
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