
Starry Nights
Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology
Stephen P. Reyna(Author)
Berghahn Books (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2017
Book
Paperback/Softback
220 pages
978-1-78533-244-9 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"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
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
329 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78533-244-9 (9781785332449)
DOI
10.3167/9781785334610
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Person
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.
Content
Preface
Introduction
PART I: EPISTEMOLOGY
Chapter 1. Literary Anthropology and the Case against Science
Chapter 2. What Is Th eory? Something, Time-Being, Art
PART II: ONTOLOGY
Chapter 3. Dialectics of Force: Contradiction, Logics, and Conservation of Delires
PART III: CRITICAL SCIENCE
Chapter 4. Right and Might: Of Approximate Truths and Moral Judgments
Chapter 5. Perpetual Peace? Dreaming in the Time-Being of Empire
Index
Introduction
PART I: EPISTEMOLOGY
Chapter 1. Literary Anthropology and the Case against Science
Chapter 2. What Is Th eory? Something, Time-Being, Art
PART II: ONTOLOGY
Chapter 3. Dialectics of Force: Contradiction, Logics, and Conservation of Delires
PART III: CRITICAL SCIENCE
Chapter 4. Right and Might: Of Approximate Truths and Moral Judgments
Chapter 5. Perpetual Peace? Dreaming in the Time-Being of Empire
Index