Starry Nights
：Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology
( Loose Can(n)ons )
Publication subTitle ：Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology
Publication series ： Loose Can(n)ons
Author： Reyna Stephen P.
Publisher： Berghahn Books
Publication year： 2017
E-ISBN: 9781785332456
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781785334610
Subject： C912.4 cultural anthropology, social anthropology
Keyword： 文化人类学、社会人类学,社会学
Language： ENG
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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.
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