Being-in-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place
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- ISBN 9780807132043
- Weight: 612g
- Dimensions: 153 x 222mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 2006
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: 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 natuÂrally 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 reliÂgious insight make this an enthralling work.
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 natuÂrally 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 reliÂgious insight make this an enthralling work.
Miles Richardson, Doris Z. Stone Professor in Latin American Studies at Louisiana State University, is the author or editor of several previous books, including Cry Lonesome and Other Accounts of the AnthroÂpologist'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. He has taught at LSU since 1965 and has no plans to retire.
