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

New York : Berghahn Books [2017], 2017

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Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

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Erscheint auch als: Reyna, Stephen P : Starry nights. - New York : Berghahn Books, 2017 (Druck-Ausgabe)

1-78533-245-7 (electronic bk.); 978-1-78533-245-6 (electronic bk.)

978-1-78533-461-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-78533-244-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-78533-461-0 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

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301.01     Ähnliche Literatur

bisacsh: SOC 002000 ; bisacsh: SOC 002010 ; bisacsh: SOC 026000 ; bisacsh: SOC 053000

LOC-SH: Anthropology -- Philosophy ; Critical realism

SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology ; General ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural ; Anthropology ; Philosophy ; Critical realism

Preface; Introduction; Part I -- Epistemology; Chapter 1 -- Literary Anthropology and the Case against Science; Chapter 2 -- What Is Theory? 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

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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