Reyna Starry Nights

Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-78533-245-6
Verlag: Berghahn
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 220 Seiten, Mobipocket Unencrypted

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

Introduction

Epistemology

Chapter 1. Literary Anthropology and the Case Against Science

Chapter 2. What is Theory? Something, Time-Being, Art



Ontology

Chapter 3. Dialectics of Force: Contradiction, Logics, and Conservation of Délires



Critical Science

Chapter 4. Right and Might: Of Approximate Truths and Moral Judgments

Chapter 5. Perpetual Peace? Dreaming in the Time-Being of Empire

Über Autor(innen)

Reyna, Stephen P.
Stephen P. Reyna is a Research Associate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Munchen and a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Manchester.