Miles E. Richardson

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Doris Z. Stone Professor in Latin American Studies
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-6192 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: gamile@lsu.edu

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., Tulane University, 1965.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Place and Culture
Ritual, Poetics, and Narrative
Phenomenology
Human Evolution
Latin America and the American South

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Richardson, Miles. 2003. Being-in-Christ and Putting Death in Its Place: An Anthropologist's Account of Christian Performance in Spanish America and the American South. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press.

Richardson, Miles. 1999. "Place, Narrative, and the Writing Self: The Poetics of Being in The Garden of Eden." The Southern Review 35(2):330-37.

Richardson, Miles. 1998. "The Poetics of a Resurrection: Re-Seeing 30 Years of Change in a Colombian Community and in the Anthropological Enterprise." American Anthropologist 100(1):11-21.

Richardson, Miles. 1998. "Poetics in the Field and on the Page." Qualitative Inquiry 4(4):451-62.

Richardson, Miles. 1996. "Humanistic Anthropology." Encyclopedia of Cultural Anthropology. David Levinson and Melvin Ember, eds., pp. 613-18. New York: Henry Holt.

Richardson, Miles. 1995. "Speaking and Hearing (In Contrast to Touching and Seeing) the Sacred." Religion in the Contemporary South, O. Kendal White and Daryl White, eds., pp. 13- 22. No. 28 Southern Anthropological Society Proceedings. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press.

Richardson, Miles. 1995. "Clarifying the Dark in Black Christs: The Play of Icon, Narrative, and Experience in the Construction of Presence." Yearbook of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, David J. Robinson, ed. 21:107-20.

Richardson, Miles. 1990. Cry Lonesome and Other Accounts of the Anthropologist's Project. Albany: State University of New York Press.

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

1999-present. Editorial Board,
Qualitative Inquiry.

1997-present. Doris Z. Stone Professor.

1989-97. Fred B. Kniffen Professor.

1984-90. Editor, Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly.

COURSES TAUGHT

Human Evolution
Comparative Religions
Place and Culture
Poetics of Place
History of Anthropological Theory
Latin American Cultures

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