Roy Rappaport

Roy Abraham Rappaport (born March 25, 1926 , † October 9, 1997 ) was an American anthropologist who became known for his contributions to the study of ritual and ecological anthropology.

Rappaport earned his PhD from 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 ( swine Tree: Ritual in the ecology of a New Guinea people ) from 1968 was an ecological view of the ritual in the Tsembaga in Guinea . His book is considered to be the most influential and widely cited work in the field of ecological anthropology.

In 1991 Rappaport was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Fonts

• Rappaport, RA (1968) Pigs for the Ancestors . New Haven: Yale University Press, 2nd Task 1984, Paperback: Waveland Press, 2000, ISBN 1-57766-101-X
• Rappaport, RA (1979) Ecology, Meaning and Religion . Richmond: North Atlantic Books.
• Rappaport, RA (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. On Roy Rappaport's cybernetics of the sacred . in: Erich Hörl and Michael Hagner (eds.): The transformation of the human. Contributions to the cultural history of cybernetics . Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008, pp. 275-298.