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Last updated on December 21, 2024.
Roy A. Rappaport (1926โ1997) was an American anthropologist known for his contributions to the anthropological study of ritual and to ecological anthropology.
Nature is seen by humans through a screen of beliefs, knowledge, and purposes, and it is in terms of their images of nature, rather than of the actual structure of nature, that they act. Yet, it is upon nature itself that they do act, and it is nature itself that acts upon them, nurturing or destroying them.