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- catalog abstract ""In this original anthropological study, Miles Richardson uses forty years of empirical research to examine the way Christians address the uniquely human question of death. He explores 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 naturally occurring fate; and through word and artifact they dwell upon that discovery. The concepts of culture, as an emergent dialogic exchange, and place, as the experiential location of that exchange, illuminate 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's thrust conjoins four-field anthropology (biological, cultural, archaeological, and linguistic) and a rigorous evolutionary framework to a postmodern dialogic, reflexive stance - that is, it views humanity as inescapably a product of nature without sacrificing the interpretive social constructions that "turn a primate into a poem."" "General readers, anthropologists, and students of Latin American and southern culture will be enthralled by Richardson's combination of ethnographic detail and religious insight that speaks to the question of what to do about death within the construct of human evolution."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12640462.
- catalog coverage "Latin America Church history.".
- catalog coverage "Latin America Colonization.".
- catalog coverage "Southern States Church history.".
- catalog created "c2003.".
- catalog date "2003".
- catalog date "c2003.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2003.".
- catalog description ""In this original anthropological study, Miles Richardson uses forty years of empirical research to examine the way Christians address the uniquely human question of death. He explores 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 naturally occurring fate; and through word and artifact they dwell upon that discovery. The concepts of culture, as an emergent dialogic exchange, and place, as the experiential location of that exchange, illuminate how two groups, Catholics in Spanish America and Baptists in the American South, create "being-in-Christ" and thereby "put death in its place.""".
- catalog description ""The book's thrust conjoins four-field anthropology (biological, cultural, archaeological, and linguistic) and a rigorous evolutionary framework to a postmodern dialogic, reflexive stance - that is, it views humanity as inescapably a product of nature without sacrificing the interpretive social constructions that "turn a primate into a poem."" "General readers, anthropologists, and students of Latin American and southern culture will be enthralled by Richardson's combination of ethnographic detail and religious insight that speaks to the question of what to do about death within the construct of human evolution."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-394) and index.".
- catalog description "The struggle of culture with death -- The presence of Christ in the new world during colonial times -- The presence of Christ in the new world during modernity -- The temple and the house -- The journey (ours and Christ's) -- Being-in-Christ in the presence of death.".
- catalog extent "xx, 414 p. :".
- catalog identifier "080712849X (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2003".
- catalog issued "c2003.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Latin America Church history.".
- catalog spatial "Latin America Colonization.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States Church history.".
- catalog spatial "Southern States".
- catalog subject "277 21".
- catalog subject "BR600 .R53 2003".
- catalog subject "Baptists Southern States History.".
- catalog subject "Catholic Church Latin America History.".
- catalog subject "Christianity and culture.".
- catalog tableOfContents "The struggle of culture with death -- The presence of Christ in the new world during colonial times -- The presence of Christ in the new world during modernity -- The temple and the house -- The journey (ours and Christ's) -- Being-in-Christ in the presence of death.".
- catalog title "Being-in-Christ and putting death in its place : an anthropologist's account of Christian performance in Spanish America and the American South / Miles Richardson.".
- catalog type "Church history. fast".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".