Ecology and the sacred
Subtitle: engaging the anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport
By: edited by Ellen Messer and Michael Lambek
Contributors: Rappaport, Roy A; Messer, Ellen; Lambek, Michael
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: Rappaport, Roy A; Rites and ceremonies; Ritual; Religion; Human ecology; Maring (Papua New Guinean people)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Thinking and engaging the whole: the anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport / Ellen Messer; title: Bibliography of the works of Roy A. Rappaport; title: Kicking off the kaiko: instability, opportunism, and crisis in ecological anthropology / Susan H. Lees; title: Human ecology from space: ecological anthropology engages the study of global environmental change / Emilio F. Moran and Eduardo S. Brondizio; title: Ecological embeddedness and personhood: have we always been capitalists? / Alf Hornborg; title: Considering the power and potential of the anthropology of trouble / Barbara Rose Johnston; title: Teens and troubles in the new world order / Fran Markowitz; title: 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; title: 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; title: Monolith or the Tower of Babel? Ultimate sacred postulates at work in conservative Christian schools / Melinda Bollar Wagner; title: Belief beheld: inside and outside, insider and outsider in the anthropology of religion / James Peacock; title: Notes for a cybernetics of the holy / Thomas J. Csordas; title: Rappaport on religion: a social anthropological reading / Michael Lambek; title: Rappaport's maring: the challenge of ethnography / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart; title: Reflections on pigs for the ancestors / Gillian Gillison; title: Averting the bush fire day: Ain's cult revisited / Polly Wiessner and Akii Tumu; title: Reading exchange in Melanesia: theory and ethnography in the context of encompassment / Edward LiPuma