| Starry Nights: Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology Contributor(s): Reyna, Stephen P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1785332449 ISBN-13: 9781785332449 Publisher: Berghahn Books OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - Social Science | Research - Social Science | Methodology |
| Dewey: 301.01 |
| LCCN: 2016053586 |
| Series: Loose Can(n)Ons |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 6" W x 9" (0.67 lbs) 220 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): 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. |
