Background
Murphy, Robert Francis was born on March 3, 1924 in Rockaway Beach, New York, United States. Son of John E. and Marion (Nolan) Murphy.
( "The most powerful book of its kind I've ever read.... ...)
"The most powerful book of its kind I've ever read.... Extraordinary powers of observation, generalization, and depth."―Oliver Sacks, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife For a Hat Winner of the Columbia University Lionel Trilling Award. Robert Murphy was in the prime of his career as an anthropologist when he felt the first symptom of a malady that would ultimately take him on an odyssey stranger than any field trip to the Amazon: a tumor of the spinal cord that progressed slowly and irreversibly into quadriplegia. In this gripping account, Murphy explores society's fears, myths, and misunderstandings about disability, and the damage they inflict. He reports how paralysis―like all disabilities―assaults people's identity, social standing, and ties with others, while at the same time making the love of life burn even more fiercely.
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(When it originally appeared, this groundbreaking ethnogra...)
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 role, sexual antagonism, and the means by which women compensate for their low social position. The new foreword―written collectively by renowned anthropologists who were all students of the Murphys―is both a tribute to the Murphys and a critical reflection on the continued relevance of their work today.
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Murphy, Robert Francis was born on March 3, 1924 in Rockaway Beach, New York, United States. Son of John E. and Marion (Nolan) Murphy.
Bachelor of Arts, Columbia University, 1949; Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology, Columbia University, 1954.
Research associate, University of Illinois, Urbana, 1953-1955; assistant professor department anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1955-1961; associate professor, University of California, Berkeley, 1961-1963; professor, Columbia University, New York City, 1963-1990; department chairman anthropology, Columbia University, New York City, 1969-1972.
(When it originally appeared, this groundbreaking ethnogra...)
( Core text for introductory cultural/social anthropology...)
( "The most powerful book of its kind I've ever read.... ...)
(Additional Editor Is A. L. Kroeber.)
(Additional Editor Is A. L. Kroeber.)
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Member American Anthropological Association, American Ethnological Society.
Married Yolanda Bukowska, April 1, 1950. Children: Pamela Ann, Robert Steven.