of the American Anthropological Association. Rappaport died of cancer in 1997. Works Biersack, Aletta. (1999) "Introduction: From the "New Ecology" to the New Ecologies." American Anthropologist 101.1; 5–18. Hart, Keith and Conrad Kottack. (1999) "Roy A. "Skip Rappaport." American Anthropologist 101.1; 159–161. Hoey, Brian, and Tom Fricke. "From Sweet Potatoes to God Almighty: Roy Rappaport on Being a Hedgehog", American Ethnologist 34.3 581–599. McGee, R. Jon and Richard L. Warms (2004) Anthropological Theory: An Introductory History. New York: McGraw Hill. Knight, C. 1998. Ritual/speech coevolution: a solution to the problem of deception. In J. R. Hurford, M. Studdert-Kennedy and C. Knight (eds), Approaches to the Evolution of Language: Social and Cognitive Bases. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 68–91. Knight, C. 1999. Sex and language as pretend-play. In R. Dunbar, C. Knight and C. Power (eds), The Evolution of Culture. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 228–247. Rappaport, R.A. (1968) Pigs for the Ancestors. New Haven: Yale University Press. Rappaport, R.A. (1979) Ecology, Meaning and Religion. Richmond: North Atlantic Books. Rappaport, R.A. (1984) Pigs for the Ancestors. 2nd edition. New Haven: Yale University Press. (Reissued Long Grove, IL: Waveland Press, 2000) Rappaport, R.A. (1996) "Risk and the Human Environment." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. Rappaport, R.A. (1999) Ritual and Religion in the Making of Humanity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Wolf, Eric. (1999) "Cognizing "Cognized Models.'" 101.1;19–22. References External links Biography by Julia Messerli Obituary, The University Record (University of Michigan), October 15, 1997. Roy Rappaport Papers MSS 516. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library. 1926 births 1997 deaths Jewish American social scientists Jewish anthropologists Anthropologists of religion Psychological anthropologists University of Michigan faculty Columbia University alumni 20th-century American anthropologists 20th-century American Jews