Rappaport, Roy A.

American anthropologist born in New York City in 1926 and educated at Cornell University (B.A. Hotel Admin., 1949)) and Columbia University (Ph. D. Anthropology, 1966). Rappaport was a member of the 1962-1963 Columbia University Expedition to Papua New Guinea, during which time he conducted fieldwork concerning the role of ritual and ecology in the lives of the Tsembaga, a Maring-speaking people living in the Simbai River Valley, Madang Province. In 1965, Rappaport accepted a faculty position in the Anthropology Dept. at the Univ. of Michigan, which he held until 1997. Rappaport died in Ann Arbor, Mich. in 1997.

From the description of Roy Rappaport papers, 1961-1985. (University of California, San Diego). WorldCat record id: 44268968

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