02562nam 2200481 450 991082137020332120170628082111.010.1515/9781785332456(CKB)3710000001386859(MiAaPQ)EBC4873535(DE-B1597)636262(DE-B1597)9781785332456(EXLCZ)99371000000138685920170713h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierStarry nights critical structural realism in anthropology /Stephen P. ReynaNew York ;Oxford, [England] :Berghahn Books,2017.©20171 online resource (210 pages)Loose Can(n)ons ;Volume 11-78533-461-1 1-78533-245-7 Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.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 -- IndexStarry 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.Loose can(n)ons ;Volume 1.AnthropologyPhilosophyCritical realismAnthropologyPhilosophy.Critical realism.301.01Reyna Stephen P.938438MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821370203321Starry nights3983021UNINA