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Reyna Stephen P. |
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Starry nights : critical structural realism in anthropology / / Stephen P. Reyna |
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New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (210 pages) |
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Collana |
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Loose Can(n)ons ; ; Volume 1 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Anthropology - Philosophy |
Critical realism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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. |
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