Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People by Roy A. Rappaport

Pigs for the Ancestors: Ritual in the Ecology of a New Guinea People

Roy A. Rappaport

501 pages first pub 1968 (editions)

nonfiction challenging informative medium-paced
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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 ma...

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