The rubber trade and the Mundurucu village
book chapter 1954 Murphy, Robert Francis

MundurucuSouth America > Amazon and Orinoco
This is an excerpt from a larger work based on traditional knowledge and memories of informants and supplemented by the author's own observations while conducting fieldwork among the Mundurucu...

Matrilocality and patrilineality in Mundurucu society
article 1959 Murphy, Robert Francis

MundurucuSouth America > Amazon and Orinoco
The author presents evidence in this article that the Mundurucu are one of the few authenticated cases of patrilineal group in which postmarital residence is permanently matrilocal. He include...

Intergroup hostility and social cohesion
article 1959 Murphy, Robert Francis

MundurucuSouth America > Amazon and Orinoco
This is an analysis of Mundurucu warfare and its relation to social organization, examined in light of theoretical propositions of other writers. The author gives a brief summary of Mundurucu ...

Mundurucú Indians
essay 1956 Murphy, Robert Francis

MundurucuSouth America > Amazon and Orinoco
The purpose of this article is to contrast the behavior of the Mundurucu toward one another with that of outsiders, and to show how the intensity of this contrast is closely related to other a...

Headhunter's heritage; social and economic change among the Mundurucú Indians
Book 1960 Murphy, Robert Francis

MundurucuSouth America > Amazon and Orinoco
This source is a sociological oriented study and analysis of the effects of social change on the economy and social structure of Mundurucu society. The agents of social change, as represented ...

Deviance and social control I
article 1961 Murphy, Robert Francis

MundurucuSouth America > Amazon and Orinoco
This short paper is a study of a young Mundurucu chief. The author discusses his abnormal personality traits and the causes of his social deviancy. The rest of the article is devoted to descri...

The Trumaí Indians of central Brazil
Book 1955 Murphy, Robert Francis & Quain, Buell H. (Buell Halvor)

TrumaiSouth America > Amazon and Orinoco
This brief but well organized monograph on the Trumaí Indians of the Upper Xingu River area in Brazil is a posthumous analysis and interpretation of Quain's field notes of 1938 by an equally c...

Women of the forest
Book 1985 Murphy, Yolanda & Murphy, Robert Francis

MundurucuSouth America > Amazon and Orinoco
This document describes in detail concepts of reality versus ideology in terms of male-female relationships in Mundurucu society. In their analysis of the data the authors consider '…the histo...

Tappers and sappers
article 1989 Burkhalter, S. Brian & Murphy, Robert Francis

MundurucuSouth America > Amazon and Orinoco
This paper presents a description and analysis of the social and cultural changes that have taken place among the Mundurucu Indians of the upper Tapajós river, Brazil from the time of Robert M...