Roy Rappaport

Roy A. Rappaport (* 1926, † 1997) was an American anthropologist who is best known for his contributions to the study of ritual and to ecological anthropology. He earned his Ph.D. at Columbia University and then taught at the University of Michigan. His most famous work, Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People of 1968 was an ecological representation of the ritual at the Tsembaga in New Guinea. His book is considered the most influential and most cited work in the field of ecological anthropology.

Writings

  • Rappaport, R. A. (1968 ) Pigs for the Ancestors. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2nd task 1984 paperback edition: Waveland Press, 2000, ISBN 157766101X
  • Rappaport, R. A. (1979 ) Ecology, Meaning and Religion. Richmond: North Atlantic Books.
  • Rappaport, R. A. (1999) Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Secondary literature

  • McGee, R. Jon, Richard L. Warms: Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. McGraw Hill, New York 2004.
  • Maria Sybilla Lotter: Pigs for the ancestors. To Roy Rappaport's Cybernetics of the sacred.: Erich Hoerl and Michael Hagner (eds. ): The transformation of the human. Contributions to the cultural history of cybernetics. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 275-298.
  • Anthropologist ( 20th century)
  • Ethnologist
  • High school teacher ( Ann Arbor )
  • Americans
  • Born in 1926
  • Died in 1997
  • Man
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