Yolanda Murphy Explained

Yolanda Murphy
Birth Date:April 10, 1925
Birth Place:Warsaw, Poland
Death Date:June 3, 2016
Death Place:Medford, Oregon, U.S.
Occupation:Anthropologist

Yolanda Murphy (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.

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

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]

Notes and References

  1. News: 1989-06-09 . Clementine Borowski Bukowska (death notice) . 28 . The Record . 2023-01-13 . Newspapers.com.
  2. Book: Murphy . Robert F. . Shoshone-Bannock Subsistence and Society . Murphy . Yolanda . 2019-12-04 . Good Press . en.
  3. Book: Women of the Forest: 30th anniversary edition . Yolanda . Murphy . Robert Murphy Foreword by R. Brian . Ferguson . William L. . Balée . Janet M. . Chernela . Judith . Shapiro . Orna . Johnson . afterword by Thomas A. . Gregor . December 2004 . 9780231132329 . Columbia University Press.
  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 . en . 26 . 2 . 235–242 . 10.1016/0277-9536(88)90244-4 . 2964721 . 0277-9536.
  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 . 10.1007/BF00247770 . 29790366 . 144781818 . 0304-4092.
  8. Book: Murphy, Robert F. . The body silent . 2001 . Norton . 0-393-32042-1 . New York . 47078058.
  9. News: Narvaez . Alfonso A. . 1990-10-11 . Robert F. Murphy, 66, Professor Of Anthropology and an Author . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-01-12 . 0362-4331.
  10. Web site: Yolanda Murphy death notice . 26 January 2022.

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