TY - BOOK ID - 134840627 TI - Starry nights : critical structural realism in anthropology PY - 2017 SN - 9781785334610 1785334611 9781785332449 1785332449 PB - New York Berghahn DB - UniCat KW - Anthropology KW - Critical realism KW - Philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:134840627 AB - 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. ER -