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.

Yolanda Murphy
A white woman with curled hair, from a passport-style photograph
Yolanda Murphy, from her 1952 Brazilian immigration card
BornApril 10, 1925
Warsaw, Poland
DiedJune 3, 2016
Medford, Oregon, U.S.
OccupationAnthropologist

Early life and education

Yolanda V. Bukowska was born in Warsaw, Poland on April 10, 1925, the daughter of Walter Bukowski and Clementine Borowski Bukowska. When she was still a young child, she and her widowed mother moved to the United States. Her mother worked as a dress designer in New York City.[1]

Career

The Murphys did extensive field work in Brazil in 1952, in preparation for writing their best-known work, the classic text Women of the Forest (1974). They also did work in the western United States in the 1950s, among the Shoshone and Bannock peoples, in connection with a land claims case.[2] She taught at Empire State College (SUNY).[3]

Publications
  • Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society (1960, with Robert F. Murphy)
  • Women of the Forest (1974, with Robert F. Murphy)
  • "Women, work, and property in a South African tribe" (1980, with Robert F. Murphy)[4]
  • "Physical disability and social liminality: A study in the rituals of adversity" (1988, with Robert F. Murphy, Jessica Scheer, and Richard Mack)[5]
  • "Women's Day among the Mundurucu" (1993, with Robert F. Murphy)[6]

Personal life

Bukowska met her husband Robert F. Murphy while they were graduate students in at Columbia University. They married in 1950,[7] and had two children, Pamela and Robert. Her husband was paralyzed by a spinal tumor in 1975,[8] and he died in 1990;[9] she died in Medford, Oregon on June 3, 2016, at the age of 91.[10]

References
  1. "Clementine Borowski Bukowska (death notice)". The Record. 1989-06-09. p. 28. Retrieved 2023-01-13 – via Newspapers.com.
  2. Murphy, Robert F.; Murphy, Yolanda (2019-12-04). Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society. Good Press.
  3. 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.
  4. Murphy, Robert F., and Yolanda Murphy. "Women, work, and property in a South American tribe." Theory and Practice: Essays Presented to Gene Weltfish. S. Diamond, ed (1980): 179-194.
  5. Murphy, Robert F.; Scheer, Jessica; Murphy, Yolanda; Mack, Richard (1988-01-01). "Physical disability and social liminality: A study in the rituals of adversity". Social Science & Medicine. 26 (2): 235–242. doi:10.1016/0277-9536(88)90244-4. ISSN 0277-9536. PMID 2964721.
  6. Murphy, Robert, and Yolanda Murphy. "Woman's Day Among the Mundurucu." Gender in Cross-cultural Perspective (1993): 216.
  7. Murphy, Robert F. (1991). "Memoir: Anthropology at Columbia: A Reminiscence". Dialectical Anthropology. 16 (1): 77. doi:10.1007/BF00247770. ISSN 0304-4092. JSTOR 29790366. S2CID 144781818.
  8. Murphy, Robert F. (2001). The body silent. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-32042-1. OCLC 47078058.
  9. Narvaez, Alfonso A. (1990-10-11). "Robert F. Murphy, 66, Professor Of Anthropology and an Author". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-12.
  10. "Yolanda Murphy death notice". Retrieved 26 January 2022.
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