TY - BOOK ID - 136392873 TI - Starry nights : critical structural realism in anthropology PY - 2017 PB - New York ; Oxford, [England] : Berghahn Books, DB - UniCat KW - Anthropology KW - Critical realism. KW - Philosophy. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136392873 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 -