Starry Nights

<p> <em>Starry Nights: Critical Structural Realism in Anthropology</em> 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 <em>Starry Nights</em> 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.</p>