Paperback. 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. Starry Nights envisions a 'big tent' anthropology that is vast in scope, addressing social, cultural and biological domains by developing a scientific realism for analyzing different fields, a structure for unifying them, and a critical attitude for improving them. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Title: Starry Nights (Paperback)
Publisher: Berghahn Books, Oxford
Publication Date: 2017
Language: English
ISBN 10: 1785332449
ISBN 13: 9781785332449
Binding: Paperback
Condition: new

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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.

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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.

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