Thinking and engaging the whole: the anthropology of Roy A. Rappaport / Ellen Messer -- Bibliography of the works of Roy A. Rappaport -- Kicking off the kaiko: instability, opportunism, and crisis in ecological anthropology / Susan H. Lees -- Human ecology from space: ecological anthropology engages the study of global environmental change / Emilio F. Moran and Eduardo S. Brondizio -- Ecological embeddedness and personhood: have we always been capitalists? / Alf Hornborg -- Considering the power and potential of the anthropology of trouble / Barbara Rose Johnston -- Teens and troubles in the new world order / Fran Markowitz -- The life and death of ritual: reflections on some ethnographic and historical phenomena in the light of Roy Rappaport's analysis of ritual / Robert I. Levy -- New ways in death and dying: transformation of body and text in late modern American Judaism. A kaddish for Roy "Skip" Rappaport / Peter K. Gluck -- Monolith or the Tower of Babel? Ultimate sacred postulates at work in conservative Christian schools / Melinda Bollar Wagner -- Belief beheld: inside and outside, insider and outsider in the anthropology of religion / James Peacock -- Notes for a cybernetics of the holy / Thomas J. Csordas -- Rappaport on religion: a social anthropological reading / Michael Lambek -- Rappaport's maring: the challenge of ethnography / Andrew Strathern and Pamela J. Stewart -- Reflections on pigs for the ancestors / Gillian Gillison -- Averting the bush fire day: Ain's cult revisited / Polly Wiessner and Akii Tumu -- Reading exchange in Melanesia: theory and ethnography in the context of encompassment / Edward LiPuma