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The rubber trade and the Mundurucu villagebook chapter 1954 • Murphy, Robert Francis
Mundurucu • South 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. The section processed for the files is particularly conc...Matrilocality and patrilineality in Mundurucu societyarticle 1959 • Murphy, Robert Francis
Mundurucu • South 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 includes a preliminary summary of tribal history and culture. The...Intergroup hostility and social cohesionarticle 1959 • Murphy, Robert Francis
Mundurucu • South 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 culture and history, followed by a more detailed presentat...Mundurucú Indiansessay 1956 • Murphy, Robert Francis
Mundurucu • South 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 aspects of the social system. The author gives a brief summ...Headhunter's heritage; social and economic change among the Mundurucú IndiansBook 1960 • Murphy, Robert Francis
Mundurucu • South 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 in this source, are primarily the trader and missionary bo...Deviance and social control Iarticle 1961 • Murphy, Robert Francis
Mundurucu • South 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 describing the social sanctions which were brought against him a...The Trumaí Indians of central BrazilBook 1955 • Murphy, Robert Francis & Quain, Buell H. (Buell Halvor)
Trumai • South 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 competent fellow anthropologist, Murphy. It contains keen a...Women of the forestBook 1985 • Murphy, Yolanda & Murphy, Robert Francis
Mundurucu • South 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 historical , ecological, and cultural setting in which the Mund...Tappers and sappersarticle 1989 • Burkhalter, S. Brian & Murphy, Robert Francis
Mundurucu • South 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 Murphy's field work in 1952-1953 to that of S. Brian Burkha...