Starry nights : critical structural realism in anthropology / Stephen P. Reyna.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reyna, Stephen P., author.

Series:

Loose can(n)ons ; Volume 1.

Loose Can(n)ons ; Volume 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology--Philosophy.

Anthropology.

Critical realism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, 2017.

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.

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-387-2

OCLC:

1350571528