Yolanda Murphy

Yolanda Murphy (née Bukowska, April 10, 1925 – June 3, 2016) was a Polish-born American cultural anthropologist who was 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.

Murphy was born in Warsaw, Poland on April 10, 1925. 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).[1] Murphy died in Medford, Oregon on June 3, 2016, at the age of 91.[2]

Works
  • Yolanda Murphy, Robert Francis Murphy (2004). Women of the forest. Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-13233-6.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: uses authors parameter (link)

References
  1. 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.
  2. "Yolanda Murphy death notice". Retrieved 26 January 2022.


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