Starry Nights

Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology

AvStephen P. Reyna

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

Starry Nights: Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology offers nothing less than a reinventing of the discipline of anthropology. In these six essays – four published here for the first time – Stephen Reyna critiques the postmodern tenets of anthropology, while devising a new strategy for conducting research. Combative and clear, Starry Nights provides an important critique of mainstream anthropology as represented by Geertz and the postmodern legacy, and envisions a mode of anthropological research that addresses social, cultural and biological questions with techniques that are theoretically rigorous and practically useful.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-04-01
Mått:152 x 229 x 17 mm
Vikt:467 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Loose Can(n)ons
Antal sidor:220
Förlag:Berghahn Books
ISBN:9781785334610

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Stephen P. Reyna is a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Salle and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester.

Recensioner i media

“Starry Nights is Reyna’s grand attempt to develop a thoroughly holistic and galactic model that will supplement the theoretical architecture of anthropologists as they explore the modern world and should be required reading in any graduate-level theory course in anthropology.” • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute“This is an important and timely collection of essays by one of the leading exponents of a scientific, materialist anthropology… I could see the usefulness of this collection in seminars on theory at the graduate and undergraduate level.” • David Sutton, Southern Illinois University

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceIntroductionPART I: EPISTEMOLOGYChapter 1. Literary Anthropology and the Case against ScienceChapter 2. What Is Th eory? Something, Time-Being, ArtPART II: ONTOLOGYChapter 3. Dialectics of Force: Contradiction, Logics, and Conservation of DéliresPART III: CRITICAL SCIENCEChapter 4. Right and Might: Of Approximate Truths and Moral JudgmentsChapter 5. Perpetual Peace? Dreaming in the Time-Being of EmpireIndex