Starry Nights

Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-244-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 220 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 329 g

Reihe: Loose Can(n)ons

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Reyna, Stephen P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Reyna, Stephen P.
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.