Starry Nights (eBook)

Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology

Stephen P. Reyna (Autor)

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2017
220 Seiten
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-245-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

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. 

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.4.2017
• Reihe/Serie: Loose Can(n)ons
• Reihe/Serie: Loose Can(n)ons
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Methodology in Anthropology • Theory &amp • Theory & Methodology in Anthropology • Theory and Methodology
• ISBN-10: 1-78533-245-7 / 1785332457
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78533-245-6 / 9781785332456