Roy Rappaport
Roy Rappaport · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Ecological anthropologist known for 'Pigs for the Ancestors' and ritual studies
1926, New York City, USA — 1997, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
United States
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Rappaport was a Jewish American ecological anthropologist whose 'Pigs for the Ancestors' (1968) showed how ritual among the Tsembaga Maring of New Guinea regulated ecology, becoming a founding text of ecological anthropology. His later 'Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity' (1999) offered a sweeping theory of ritual. He taught for decades at the University of Michigan and served as president of the American Anthropological Association.
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Ecological anthropologist known for 'Pigs for the Ancestors' and ritual studies
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Anthropology
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