Roy Rappaport conversations with Tom Fricke
name: label: Creator
content: Rappaport, Roy A.
label: Former owner
content: Fricke, Thomas E., 1954- (Thomas Earl)
label: Names
content: Rappaport, Roy A.
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated to the National Anthropological Archives by Tom Fricke in 2011.
creator: label: Creator
content: Rappaport, Roy A.
abstract: label: Summary
content: Sound recordings and transcripts of conversations between Roy Rappaport and Tom Fricke made during the year before Rappaport's death in 1997.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Roy A. Rappaport (1926-1997) was a cultural and ecological anthropologist whose work involved the study of ritual. He received his PhD from Columbia University and joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1965.

Tom Fricke (1954-) is a cultural anthropologist and faculty at the University of Michigan.

After Rappaport was diagnosed with cancer in 1996, Fricke spent many days at Rappaport's home and recorded the conversations that they had, often leading them with questions about Rappaport's life and anthropology.The recordings were later transcribed by Fricke's student, Brian A. Hoey.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Linear foot
label: Extent
content: 15 Cassettes
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1996-1997
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.MS2011-39
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Cassettes
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The recordings and transcripts are organized chronologically by date of recording.
bibliography: label: Selected Bibliography
content: Fricke, Tom and Hoey, Brian A. ""From Sweet Potatoes to God Almighty": Roy Rappaport on being a hedgehog."  -- American Ethnologist --  34 No.3 (2007).

Fricke, Tom and Hoey, Brian A. "Striving for Unity: A Conversation with Roy Rappaport."  -- Michigan Discussions in Anthropology --  16 (2006).
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: The collection contains sound recordings and transcripts of conversations between Roy Rappaport and Tom Fricke made during the year before Rappaport's death in 1997. Included are 15 audiocassettes and associated written transcripts.