Roy A Rappaport
Biographic Data
| ID | 86237 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Roy A Rappaport |
| GIVEN NAMES | Roy A |
| FAMILY NAME | Rappaport |
| SIGNATURE | RAPPAPORT R A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 561 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People
Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
Roy Rappaport argues that religion is central to the continuing evolution of life, although it has been been displaced from its original position of intellectual authority by the rise of modern science. His book, which could be construed as in some degree religious as well as about religion, insists that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches to the study of humankind, he mounts a comprehensi…
Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
Ritual und performative Sprache
Unter Ritual verstehe ich eine Form oder eine Struktur. Es handelt sich dabei um die Ausführung mehr oder weniger unveränderlicher Sequenzen formaler Handlungen und Aussagen, die nicht von den Akteuren codiert worden sind. Im folgenden werde ich die Implikationen dieser Definition erläutern, wobei ich davon ausgehe, dass kein einziger Aspekt des Rituals ihm allein eigen ist. Erst das Zusammentreffen all seiner Eigenschaften macht das Ritual einzi…
Risk and the Human Environment
This article is concerned with the nature of what federal legislation calls “the human environment” as a preliminary to understanding impacts upon it and risks to it. After discussing the features that distinguish human systems from others, emphasizing nonmetrical aspects of their sociocultural characteristics, eighteen points concerning risks and impacts are made. The article concludes with a discussion of the possible place in the human environ…
The Human Condition
Book reviewed in this article: The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity . Adam Kuper
Global Ecosystems: Creating Options through Anthropological Perspectives
Distinguished Lecture in General Anthropology: The Anthropology of Trouble
This essay was presented as the Distinguished Lecture in General Anthropology at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 4, 1992, in San Francisco, California
Gregory Bateson 1904-1980
On Rappaport's Ecology, Meaning, and Religion
This article comprises two distinct pieces addressing Roy A. Rappaport's Ecology, Meaning, and Religion. Johannes Fabian's contribution critiques Rappaport's approach to ritual and meaning, arguing that his focus on the homeostatic function of ritual overlooks the dynamic and contested nature of meaning-making in social life. Fabian emphasizes the importance of considering the historical and political contexts in which rituals are performed and i…
Concluding comments on ritual and reflexivity
Ecology, Meaning, and Religion
Golden Fleece Award Sparks Protests
The Flew of Energy in an Agricultural Society
The Sacred in Human Evolution
seem religious. A century ago E. B. Tylor (1871), whom some consider father of modern anthropol ogy, attempted to accou nt for the univer sality of religion by reference to the psychic unity of mankind. It is the experience of dreaming, common to all men, that has suggested to al l men the existence of the soul, he argu ed, and it is from a primordial belief in the sou l that rel igion in its manif old forms has evolved. But, as Durkheim (1961) …
Physical Anthropology: Habitats and Territories: A Study of the Use of Space by Animals . Peter H. KLOPFER
Ritual, Sanctity, and Cybernetics1
The role of the sacred in human communication and in the regulation of social and ecological systems is approached through ritual. After a brief review of salient features of Maring ethnography, formal characteristics of rituals making them suitable for communication and regulation functions are examined. From this discussion a concept of sanctity relating it to a problem inherent in symbolic communication is derived. The non-discussiue basis of …
The Religion of Bellona Island: A Study of the Place of Beliefs and Rites in the Social Life of Pre‐Christian Bellona. Part 1: The Concepts of Supernaturals. T orben M onberg
Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People
Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People
Ritual, Sanctity, and Cybernetics1
The role of the sacred in human communication and in the regulation of social and ecological systems is approached through ritual. After a brief review of salient features of Maring ethnography, formal characteristics of rituals making them suitable for communication and regulation functions are examined. From this discussion a concept of sanctity relating it to a problem inherent in symbolic communication is derived. The non-discussiue basis of …
Distinguished Lecture in General Anthropology: The Anthropology of Trouble
This essay was presented as the Distinguished Lecture in General Anthropology at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 4, 1992, in San Francisco, California
Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People
Risk and the Human Environment
This article is concerned with the nature of what federal legislation calls “the human environment” as a preliminary to understanding impacts upon it and risks to it. After discussing the features that distinguish human systems from others, emphasizing nonmetrical aspects of their sociocultural characteristics, eighteen points concerning risks and impacts are made. The article concludes with a discussion of the possible place in the human environ…
Global Ecosystems: Creating Options through Anthropological Perspectives
Gregory Bateson 1904-1980
Ritual Regulation of Environmental Relations among a New Guinea People
The Religion of Bellona Island: A Study of the Place of Beliefs and Rites in the Social Life of Pre‐Christian Bellona. Part 1: The Concepts of Supernaturals. T orben M onberg
The Flew of Energy in an Agricultural Society
The Sacred in Human Evolution
seem religious. A century ago E. B. Tylor (1871), whom some consider father of modern anthropol ogy, attempted to accou nt for the univer sality of religion by reference to the psychic unity of mankind. It is the experience of dreaming, common to all men, that has suggested to al l men the existence of the soul, he argu ed, and it is from a primordial belief in the sou l that rel igion in its manif old forms has evolved. But, as Durkheim (1961) …
Physical Anthropology: Habitats and Territories: A Study of the Use of Space by Animals . Peter H. KLOPFER
Ritual, Sanctity, and Cybernetics1
The role of the sacred in human communication and in the regulation of social and ecological systems is approached through ritual. After a brief review of salient features of Maring ethnography, formal characteristics of rituals making them suitable for communication and regulation functions are examined. From this discussion a concept of sanctity relating it to a problem inherent in symbolic communication is derived. The non-discussiue basis of …
Ecology, Meaning, and Religion
Golden Fleece Award Sparks Protests
Concluding comments on ritual and reflexivity
Gregory Bateson 1904-1980
On Rappaport's Ecology, Meaning, and Religion
This article comprises two distinct pieces addressing Roy A. Rappaport's Ecology, Meaning, and Religion. Johannes Fabian's contribution critiques Rappaport's approach to ritual and meaning, arguing that his focus on the homeostatic function of ritual overlooks the dynamic and contested nature of meaning-making in social life. Fabian emphasizes the importance of considering the historical and political contexts in which rituals are performed and i…
Distinguished Lecture in General Anthropology: The Anthropology of Trouble
This essay was presented as the Distinguished Lecture in General Anthropology at the 91st Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, December 4, 1992, in San Francisco, California
The Human Condition
Book reviewed in this article: The Chosen Primate: Human Nature and Cultural Diversity . Adam Kuper
Global Ecosystems: Creating Options through Anthropological Perspectives
Risk and the Human Environment
This article is concerned with the nature of what federal legislation calls “the human environment” as a preliminary to understanding impacts upon it and risks to it. After discussing the features that distinguish human systems from others, emphasizing nonmetrical aspects of their sociocultural characteristics, eighteen points concerning risks and impacts are made. The article concludes with a discussion of the possible place in the human environ…
Ritual und performative Sprache
Unter Ritual verstehe ich eine Form oder eine Struktur. Es handelt sich dabei um die Ausführung mehr oder weniger unveränderlicher Sequenzen formaler Handlungen und Aussagen, die nicht von den Akteuren codiert worden sind. Im folgenden werde ich die Implikationen dieser Definition erläutern, wobei ich davon ausgehe, dass kein einziger Aspekt des Rituals ihm allein eigen ist. Erst das Zusammentreffen all seiner Eigenschaften macht das Ritual einzi…
Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
Roy Rappaport argues that religion is central to the continuing evolution of life, although it has been been displaced from its original position of intellectual authority by the rise of modern science. His book, which could be construed as in some degree religious as well as about religion, insists that religion can and must be reconciled with science. Combining adaptive and cognitive approaches to the study of humankind, he mounts a comprehensi…
Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity
Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People
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