Starry nights : critical structural realism in anthropology / / Stephen P. Reyna

• Autore: Reyna Stephen P.
• Pubblicazione: New York ; ; Oxford, [England] : , : Berghahn Books, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (210 pages)
• Disciplina: 301.01
• Soggetto topico: Anthropology - Philosophy; Critical realism
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Starry nights
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910821370203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Loose can(n)ons ; ; Volume 1.