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Rappaport, Roy Abraham was born on March 25, 1926 in New York City. Son of Murray and Judith (Israelson) Rappaport.
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This influential work is the most important and widely cited book ever published in ecological anthropology. It is a classic case study of human ecology in a tribal society, the role of culture (especially ritual) in local and regional resource management, negative feedback, and the application of systems theory to an anthropological population. It is considered a major work of theory, yet it is also empirically grounded in Rappaport's meticulous collection of quantitative and qualitative data on such "material" matters as diet and energy expenditure, as well as such mental-cognitive-ideational domains as myth and folk taxonomies. Rappaport's tour de force is a recognized classic because it contributes in so many ways to anthropological theory, ethnographic methodology, ecological anthropology, and the anthropology of religion. This enlarged edition offers a carefully reasoned, empirically focused reassessment of Rappaport's original study in the context of ongoing theoretical and methodological problems. Titles of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Hogbin, The Island of Menstruating Men: Religion in Wogeo, New Guinea (ISBN 9780881338843); Netting, Cultural Ecology, Second Edition (ISBN 9780881332049); Sillitoe-Sillitoe, Grass-Clearing Man: A Factional Ethnography of Life in the New Guinea Highlands (ISBN 9781577666011); and Townsend, Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to Policies, Second Edition (ISBN 9781577665816).
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"Two enterprises have proceeded in anthropology since ts earliest days. One, objective in its aspirations and inspired by biological disciplines, seeks explanation and is concerned to discover laws and causes. The other, subjective in its orientation and influenced by philosophy, linguistics, and the humatities, attempts interpretation and seeks to elucidate meanings. I take any raditcal separation of the two to be misguided, for the relationship between tem, with all of its difficulty, ambiguity, and tension, is a reflection of, or metaphor for, the condition of a species that lives in terms of meanings in a physical world devoid of intrinsic meaning but subject to causal law. The concept of adaptatioon when applied to human society must take account of meaning as well as cause, and of the complex dynamic of their relationship." -from the book.
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(This influential work is the most important and widely ci...)
This influential work is the most important and widely cited book ever published in ecological anthropology. It is a classic case study of human ecology in a tribal society, the role of culture (especially ritual) in local and regional resource management, negative feedback, and the application of systems theory to an anthropological population. It is considered a major work of theory, yet it is also empirically grounded in Rappaport's meticulous collection of quantitative and qualitative data on such "material" matters as diet and energy expenditure, as well as such mental-cognitive-ideational domains as myth and folk taxonomies. Rappaport's tour de force is a recognized classic because it contributes in so many ways to anthropological theory, ethnographic methodology, ecological anthropology, and the anthropology of religion. This enlarged edition offers a carefully reasoned, empirically focused reassessment of Rappaport's original study in the context of ongoing theoretical and methodological problems.
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Examines the religious behavior among the natives of New Guinea, discusses the economic and ecological factors affecting their culture, and discusses the effectiveness of functional analysis.
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Rappaport, Roy Abraham was born on March 25, 1926 in New York City. Son of Murray and Judith (Israelson) Rappaport.
Bachelor of Science, Cornell Univercity, 1949; Doctor of Philosophy (Burgess honorary fellow), Columbia University, 1966.
Owner, operator, Avaloch Inn, Lenox, Massachusetts, 1951-1959;
member of faculty, department anthropology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, since 1965;
chairman, University of Michigan, 1974-1980;
director program on studies in religion, University of Michigan, since 1991. Participant archaeological fieldwork Society Islands, 1960, ethnological fieldwork, New Guinea, 1962-1964, 81-82. Senior scholar East-West Center, 1968-1969.
Consultant Energy Research and Development Administration, 1976, Department Energy, 1977-1980, State of Nevada, since 1986, National Academy Sciences, since 1988.
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Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science. Member American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Anthropological Association (president-elect 1985-1987, president 1987-1989).
Married Ann Allison Hart, August 15, 1959. Children: Amelia, Georgiana.
