Roy Rappaport

Roy Rappaport

Roy A. Rappaport (* 1926; † 1997) ist ein US-amerikanischer Anthropologe, der durch seine Beiträge zum Studium des Rituals sowie zur ökologischen Anthropologie bekannt wurde. Er erwarb seinen Doktortitel an der Columbia University und lehrte danach an der University of Michigan. Sein berühmtestes Werk Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People von 1968 war eine ökologische Darstellung des Rituals bei den Tsembaga in Neuguinea. Sein Buch gilt als die einflussreichste und am häufigsten zitierte Arbeit auf dem Gebiet der ökologischen Anthropologie.

Schriften

Rappaport, R.A. (1968) Pigs for the Ancestors. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2. Aufgabe 1984, Taschenbuchausgabe: 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.

Sekundärliteratur

  • McGee, R. Jon and Richard L. Warms (2004) Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. New York: McGraw Hill.
  • Maria-Sybilla Lotter, "Schweine für die Vorfahren. Zu Roy Rappaports Kybernetik des Heiligen" in: Die Transformation des Humanen. Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte der Kybernetik,hrg. von Erich Hörl und Michael Hagner, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 2008, S. 275-298

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