Women of the Forest
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…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Murphy, Robert
- ISBN: 978-0-231-13233-6
- EAN: 9780231132336
- Produktnummer: 8729403
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 328 S.
- Masse: H20.7 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.7 cm 380 g
- Auflage: 30th anniversary edition
- Gewicht: 380
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Yolanda Murphy and Robert Murphy. Foreword by R. Brian. Ferguson, William L. Balée, Janet M. Chernela, Judith Shapiro, Orna Johnson, and afterword by Thomas A. Gregor
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