Stephen P Reyna

Biographic Data

ID3585779
NAMEStephen P Reyna
GIVEN NAMESStephen P
FAMILY NAMEReyna
SIGNATUREREYNA S P
AFFILIATIONSMax Planck Society
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS62
TOTAL CITATIONS271
AUTHOR COUNT61
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX9

  • Dynamics of Identification and Conflict

    Al-Amin Abu-Manga, Keebet Von Benda-Beckmann et al.BOOKDynamics of Identification and…2022

    Dealing with the dynamics of identification and conflict, this book uses theoretical orientations ranging from political ecology to rational choice theory, interpretive approaches, Marxism and multiscalar analysis. Case studies set in Africa, Europe and Central Asia are grouped in three sections devoted to pastoralism, identity and migration. What connects all of these anthropological explorations is a close focus on processes of identification a…

  • Starry Nights

    Open AccessStephen P ReynaBOOKStarry Nights2022

    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…

  • The Political Economy of African Famine

    R E Downs, Donna O Kerner et al.BOOKPolitical Economy of African Famine2019

  • The Depths of Russia

    Stephen P Reyna, Stephen ReynaARTICLEAnthropological Forum2017References: 1

  • Debate on possession, property, and production

    Open AccessJulia Eckert, N Glick Schiller et al.ARTICLEAnthropological Theory2017

  • Debate on the nature and significance of Critique

    Open AccessN Glick Schiller, Julia Eckert et al.ARTICLEAnthropological Theory2017

  • Vision Statement

    Open AccessJulia Eckert, N Glick Schiller et al.ARTICLEAnthropological Theory2016Cited by: 1

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  • The jeweler's loupe

    Open AccessStephen P Reyna, Stephen ReynaARTICLEAnthropological Theory2016Cited by: 3References: 44

    Validating and theorizing are understood as parts of a common intellectual practice - theory creation - to know why reality is, or is changing, the way it is. This essay's goal is to encourage debate about the role of validation in anthropological practice, with the aim of increasing that role. Argument is presented in Socratic fashion by posing, and responding to, questions. The first question inquires: What is validation? The second asks: Is ge…

  • Social Pointillism and Starry Nights

    Open AccessStephen P Reyna, Stephen ReynaARTICLEJournal of Asian and African…2016References: 12

    The Pointillists - notably Georges Seurat and Paul Signac - were à la mode in the late 19th century. Their paintings relied upon a brushwork that placed points of colour to construct their representations. These points were placed such that when looked at as a whole they revealed a picture of some reality. This article argues the possibility of social pointillism, where the picture one is attempting to paint is of what happens in global social re…

  • Deadly contradictions

    Open AccessStephen P Reyna, Stephen ReynaARTICLEDialectical Anthropology2013

  • Neo-Boasianism, a form of critical structural realism

    Open AccessStephen P ReynaARTICLEAnthropological Theory2012Cited by: 2References: 42

    A good paper should have fortifying doses of reason and revelation. The revelation in this paper is the identity of 'the alternative' mentioned in the title. The article reasons that neo-Boasianism should be an approach of broad interest in anthropological research. Argumentation extends across two sections. The first section explains the merits of critical structural realism. Different sub-sections introduce the realism, structuralism, and criti…

  • An epistemological turn

    Open AccessStephen P ReynaARTICLECritique of Anthropology2012References: 36

    This article takes an epistemological turn, warning that certain areas of social and cultural anthropology face the death ray of bathos, due to deference to an essentialist skepticism. An approximating skepticism is suggested as a means of cheating the death ray. Foucault's regimes of truth (RoT) standpoint is investigated using such skepticism, and shown to be made more politically relevant if transformed into an anthropology of hypocrisy. In th…

  • Don't Throw the Baby Out with the Bathos

    Open AccessStephen P ReynaARTICLETransforming Anthropology2011

    This article employs Antonionian skepticism to address an infelicity dogging Foucault's standpoint on regimes of truth (ROTs). In the process of doing this it formulates the nuts and bolts of an anthropology of hypocrisy to distinguish the truths from the “truths” of ROTs. Argument proceeds by first exploring Foucault's understanding of ROTs. Next it considers the work of three contributors to this issue that interrogate different aspects of the …

  • The Disasters of War in Darfur, 1950–2004

    Stephen P ReynaARTICLEThird World Quarterly2010Cited by: 2

    This article investigates the conflict that had been developing since the 1950s in Darfur and which in 2003 and 2004 burst into intense warfare. A 'complex-structuring of violence' standpoint explains the warfare. The argument is organised in two parts. The first section formulates the position by introducing Darfur, next evaluating the prevailing barbarisation perspective's attempts to explicate Darfur warring and, finally, formally presenting t…

  • Taking place

    Open AccessStephen P Reyna, Stephen ReynaARTICLESocial Anthropology2009

    We are told we are living in an age of globalisation; that in this age we are bedevilled by ‘new wars’ and that to combat such wars we should impose ‘benign imperialism’. The ‘new wars’ standpoint is said to be the ‘most illuminating’ representation of contemporary warfare. The present paper has four tasks. The first critiques the ‘new wars’ perspective. The second proposes an alternative ‘global wars’ approach, which suggests that certain of the…

  • "Jonathan Friedman and the "insurrection of subjugated knowledges

    Open AccessStephen P Reyna, Stephen ReynaARTICLEFocaal2009

    This article analyzes certain aspects of the work of Jonathan Friedman, especially as they are relevant to an "insurrection of subjugated knowledges" that Foucault imagined began in the 1960s. The article traces Friedman's critique of Marvin Harris's cultural materialism and of Edmund Leach's interpretation of highland Burma's socio-political systems. It discusses Friedman's pioneering development of global systems theory based on an integration …

  • Global Warring Today

    Open AccessStephen P Reyna, Stephen ReynaARTICLESocial Analysis2008

  • The crazy curse and crude domination

    Open AccessStephen P Reyna, Stephen Reyna et al.ARTICLEFocaal2008Cited by: 9

    Oil has turned out to be something of a curse. Most developing petrostates have found that their economies have worsened, their political regimes have become more authoritarian, and their conflicts have intensified. Further, this curse is a bit crazy because oil brings wealth, which would seem to bring peace and prosperity, not the trouble that so often accompanies it. The goal of this introduction is to propose a research strategy for the anthro…

  • The Traveling Model That Would Not Travel

    Open AccessStephen P ReynaARTICLESocial Analysis2007

    This article concerns a type of change involving implementation of 'traveling models'—procedural cultural plans of how to do some-thing done somewhere elsewhere. Specifically, it concerns the World Bank's traveling model of oil revenue distribution in support of Chadian development. It finds that this model is failing and that dystopia is developing in its stead. A contrasting explanation, which examines the contradictions and consequences of Cha…

  • I Am Dynamite

    Stephen P Reyna, Stephen ReynaARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2006

  • A Bureaucratic Drop in the Bucket

    Open AccessStephen P Reyna, Stephen ReynaARTICLEAnthropology News2005

  • A History of Anthropological Theory . Paul A. Erickson , Liam D. Murphy

    Stephen P ReynaARTICLEJournal of Anthropological Research2004

  • Neurohermeneutics

    Stephen P ReynaCHAPTERConnections2003

    This chapter reviews some of the more general points argued along the stops of the road show in order to contemplate what it might mean to cultivate in a neurohermeneutic garden of string being. Neurohermeneutics is the investigation of what makes connections between events in E-space. Neurohermeneutics, while critical of skepticism towards determinism, is skeptical of free will. Neurohermeneutics is a determinism; one that views chance as an unu…

  • Conjectural hermeneutics and ‘insurmountable dualism’

    Stephen P ReynaCHAPTERConnections2003

    This chapter explains how the subjective and objective are the same reality. It argues that perceiving consists of material representations of perceptual and emotional and shows that memory involves material representations of the perceptual and emotional. The chapter suggests that emotion is a type of perception consisting of material representations of the reinforcing properties of reality. Motor activities involve the utilization of muscles an…

  • A Boasian social anthropology

    Stephen P ReynaCHAPTERConnections2003

    [B]iological and cultural life is a whole.