Being-In-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place: An Anthropologist's Account of Christian Performance in Spanish America and the American South by Richardson, Miles

Being-In-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place: An Anthropologist's Account of Christian Performance in Spanish America and the American South (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780807132043)

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Being-In-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place: An Anthropologist's Account of Christian Performance in Spanish America and the American South by Richardson, Miles

Being-In-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place: An Anthropologist's Account of Christian Performance in Spanish America and the American South

$19.95

Being-In-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place: An Anthropologist's Account of Christian Performance in Spanish America and the American South

$19.95
Format: Paperback
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Winner of the James Mooney Award of the Southern Anthropological Society

In this bracingly original anthropological study, Miles Richardson draws on forty years of empirical research to explore the paradox that while humans must die like all evolving life forms, they have adapted a unique symbolic communication that makes them aware of their natu-rally occurring fate; and through word and artifact, they dwell upon that discovery. Using the concepts of culture and place, he illuminates how two groups, Catholics in Spanish America and Baptists in the American South, create "being-in-Christ" and thereby "put death in its place." The book combines biological, cultural, archaeological, and linguistic anthropology; a rigorous evolutionary framework; and a postmodern dialogic stance to view humanity as inescapably a product of nature without sacrificing the interpretative social constructions that "turn a primate into a poem." Hard-won ethnographic detail and moving reli-gious insight make this an enthralling work.

Author: Miles Richardson
ISBN-10: 0807132047
ISBN-13: 9780807132043
Publisher: LSU Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2006
Pages: 414
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.35lbs
Size: 8.76h x 6.04w x 1.25d
By Miles Richardson
By Miles Richardson
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Miles Richardson was Doris Z. Stone Professor in Latin American Studies at Louisiana State University and the author or editor of several books, including Cry Lonesome and Other Accounts of the Anthro-pologist's Project and The Burden of Being Civilized. A native of Palestine, Texas, he was a high school dropout when he realized his calling to be an anthropologist.

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