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Pigs for the Ancestors
Pigs for the Ancestors
Author: Roy A. Rappaport
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....  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300013788
ISBN-10: 0300013787
Publication Date: 1/21/1971
Pages: 331
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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