Stephen P. Reyna

Starry Nights

Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology

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Produktbeschreibung

Critiques the postmodern tenets of anthropology, while articulating a new strategy for conducting research. Provides an important critique of mainstream anthropology as represented by Geertz and the postmodern legacy. Envisions a mode of anthropological research that addresses social, cultural and biological questions with techniques that are theoretically rigorous and practically useful.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 479g
• ISBN-13: 9781785334610
• ISBN-10: 1785334611
• Artikelnr.: 46601751

Autorenporträt

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. 

Inhaltsangabe

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