Pigs for the Ancestors : Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People, New, enlarged edition
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This influential work is the most important and widely cited book ever published in ecological anthropology. It is a classic case study of human ecology in a tribal society, the role of culture (especially ritual) in local and regional resource management, negative feedback, and the application of systems theory to an anthropological population. It is considered a major work of theory, yet it is also empirically grounded in Rappaport's meticulous collection of quantitative and qualitative data on such "material" matters as diet and energy expenditure, as well as such mental-cognitive-ideational domains as myth and folk taxonomies. Rappaport's tour de force is a recognized classic because it contributes in so many ways to anthropological theory, ethnographic methodology, ecological anthropology, and the anthropology of religion. This enlarged edition offers a carefully reasoned, empirically focused reassessment of Rappaport's original study in the context of ongoing theoretical and methodological problems.
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Consider these titles of related interest also available from Waveland Press: Netting, Cultural Ecology, 2/E (ISBN 0881332046) and Townsend, Environmental Anthropology: From Pigs to Policies (ISBN 1577661265).
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Pigs for the Ancestors : Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People, New, enlarged edition
Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People, New, enlarged edition,Roy Rappaport,Yale University Press,0300032056,Anthropology - Cultural,General,Nature / Field Guide Books,Anthropology,Applied ecology,Papua New Guinea
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