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Ecology and the sacred : engaging the anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport / edited by Ellen Messer and Michael Lambek.

Title
Ecology and the sacred : engaging the anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport / edited by Ellen Messer and Michael Lambek.
Publication
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2001.

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Additional Authors
  • Rappaport, Roy A.
  • Messer, Ellen, 1948-
  • Lambek, Michael
  • Messer, Ellen
Description
viii, 364 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Rappaport, Roy A
  • Maring (Papua New Guinean people)
  • Rites and ceremonies
  • Ritual
  • Religion
  • Human ecology
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Thinking and engaging the whole: the anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport / Ellen Messer -- Bibliography of the works of Roy A. Rappaport -- Kicking off the kaiko: instability, opportunism, and crisis in ecological anthropology / Susan H. Lees -- Human ecology from space: ecological anthropology engages the study of global environmental change / Emilio F. Moran, Eduardo S. Brondizio -- Ecological embeddedness and personhood: have we always been capitalists? / Alf Hornborg -- Considering the power and potential of the anthropology of trouble / Barbara Rose Johnston -- Teens and troubles in the new world order / Fran Markowitz -- The life and death of ritual: reflections on some ethnographic and historical phenomena in the light of Roy Rappaport's analysis of ritual / Robert I. Levy -- New ways in death and dying: transformation of body and text in late modern American Judaism. A kaddish for Roy "Skip" Rappaport / Peter K. Gluck -- Monolith or the Tower of Babel? Ultimate sacred postulates at work in conservative Christian schools / Melinda Bollar Wagner -- Belief beheld: inside and outside, insider and outsider in the anthropology of religion / James Peacock -- Notes for a cybernetics of the holy / Thomas J. Csordas -- Rappaport on religion: a social anthropological reading / Michael Lambek -- Rappaport's maring: the challenge of ethnography / Andrew Strathern, Pamela J. Stewart -- Reflections on pigs for the ancestors / Gillian Gillison -- Averting the bush fire day: Ain's cult revisited / Polly Wiessner, Akii Tumu -- Reading exchange in Melanesia: theory and ethnography in the context of encompassment / Edward LiPuma.
ISBN
0472111701 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2001018112
OCLC
  • 45756064
  • SCSB-9930117
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library