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Starry Nights : Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology / Stephen P. Reyna.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Loose Can(n)ons ; 1Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785334610
  • 9781785332456
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.01 23
LOC classification:
  • GN33 .R49 2017
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.

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.

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