Starry Nights: Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology: 1 (Loose Can(n)ons, 1) - Softcover

Reyna, Stephen P.

 
9781785332449: Starry Nights: Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology: 1 (Loose Can(n)ons, 1)

Synopsis

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.

"

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

About the Author

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. 

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.