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Reyna, Stephen P.

Starry Nights : Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology / Stephen P. Reyna. - 1 online resource (220 p.) - Loose Can(n)ons ; 1 .

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I Epistemology -- Chapter one. Literary Anthropology and the Case against Science -- Chapter two. What Is Theory? Something, Time-Being, Art -- PART II Ontology -- Chapter three. Dialectics of Force Contradiction, Logics, and Conservation of Délires -- PART III Critical Science -- Chapter four. Right and Might: Of Approximate Truths and Moral Judgments -- Chapter five. Perpetual Peace? Dreaming in the Time-Being of Empire -- Index

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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.


Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.


In English.

ISBN: 9781785334610 9781785332456

Standard No.: 10.1515/9781785332456 doi

LCCN: 2016053586

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Anthropology--Philosophy.
Critical realism.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.

Subjects--Index Terms: Theory and Methodology.

LC Class. No.: GN33 / .R49 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 301.01