On 3/26/10, Jim Farmelant <farmela...@juno.com> wrote: > > The Roy Rappaport mentioned here is the professor who got me into > > anthropology. I had anthro 101 with him. (It was during the 1970 > > BAM > > strike at University of Michigan, which we are commemorating in a > > couple of weeks. Rappaport held classes off campus to support the > > strike. He did an ethnography _Pigs for the Ancestors_ within the > > cultural adaptation/ecological paradigm, Papua New Guinea. > > What was his relationship with Marvin Harris? > His views seem quite similar to Harris's. > > > Jim Farmelant > http://independent.academia.edu/JimFarmelant
^^^^^ CB: Yes, they are in the same anthropological school of thought, cultural materialism/evolutionism Rappaport was in the ecological subschool of that. I don't recall Harris being associated as specifically with "ecological" school, but his theoretical discussion in _The Rise and Fall of Anthropological Theory_ or whatever he name, cultural materialism, includes "ecological anthro". Rappaport got his Ph.d at Columbia where Harris was. Conrad Kottak, got his Ph.d there too. Kottak is another Univ of Mich. cultural materalist. Kottak is married to Harris' daughter , I think ( we note these kinship connections in anthro ; smile). In the 50's and 60's there was a big Michigan -Columbia connect in the cultural materialist school. Sahlins got his Ph.d at Columbia , too. Mervyn Meggitt. Michigan's Leslie White started the cultural evolution/materialist school, overall, in the 1920's at University of Michigan, Neo-Morganism. Lewis Henry Morgan was of course the major foundation for Engels' _The Origin_. Julian Steward was early associated with the "ecological" branch. In _The Rise_, Harris explicitly says he's not a dialectician. His _The Nature of Cultural Things_ is very posivitistic. > > > > > CB > > > > Roy Rappaport > > > > Roy A. Rappaport (1926–1997) was a distinguished anthropologist > > known > > for his contributions to the anthropological study of ritual and to > > ecological anthropology. > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Hotel > Hotel pics, info and virtual tours. Click here to book a hotel online. > http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=6Y2Q4ZTzabTkq117h98GjgAAJ1AP8ttsZd_TbiVxkZxsC3mBAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATRAAAAAA= > > _______________________________________________ > Marxism-Thaxis mailing list > Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu > To change your options or unsubscribe go to: > http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis > _______________________________________________ Marxism-Thaxis mailing list Marxism-Thaxis@lists.econ.utah.edu To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxism-thaxis
