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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Reyna, Stephen P.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: Loose Can(n)ons ; 1
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781785332456; 9783110998214
• DOI: 10.1515/9781785332456?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Stephen P. Reyna.

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.