Starry Nights

Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology

Stephen P. Reyna (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

220 Seiten

2017
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-244-9 (ISBN)

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Starry Nights envisions a 'big tent' anthropology that is vast in scope, addressing social, cultural and biological domains by developing a scientific realism for analyzing different fields, a structure for unifying them, and a critical attitude for improving them.

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.

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.

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 Délires

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

Erscheinungsdatum	28.03.2017
Reihe/Serie	Loose Can(n)ons
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	304 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78533-244-9 / 1785332449
ISBN-13	978-1-78533-244-9 / 9781785332449
Zustand	Neuware