Stephen Reyna
Biographic Data
| ID | 3611892 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Reyna |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Reyna |
| SIGNATURE | REYNA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism, by Douglas Rogers
Debate on possession, property, and production: Debating foundational concepts for anti-capitalist struggles
Debate on the nature and significance of Critique
Vision Statement: Anthropological Theory from and for Everybody
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
The jeweler's loupe: Validation
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: Making Points to Make Connections in the Sudanese Civil War
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: Global warring theory and the Iraq war, 1991–2011
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of OilTimothyMitchell (London and New York: Verso, 2012)
Taking place: ‘New Wars’ Versus Global Wars
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
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: "Maybe Somebody Needs to Explain"
The crazy curse and crude domination
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…
I Am Dynamite: An Alternative Anthropology of Power. Nigel Rapport
A Bureaucratic Drop in the Bucket: Who is Reviewing Science
Theory to Combat Crisis
Land in African Agrarian Systems. Thomas J. Bassett and Donald E. Crummey, editors. Madison, WI. and London: University of Wisconsin Press. 1993
Land in African Agrarian Systems. Thomas J. Bassett and Donald E. Crummey, editors. Madison, WI. and London: University of Wisconsin Press. 1993. xi, 418 pp. Reviewed by Stephen P. Reyna, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire, Durham
Marriage Payments, Household Structure, and Domestic Labour-Supply among the Barma of Chad
Opening ParagraphThis paper investigates the relationship between marriage payments, household structure, and domestic labour-supply among the Barma of the Republic of Chad. Recently, Netting has noted that '...household composition among farmers varies with the type and amount of labor required for effective crop production' (1974: 29). Netting is supported by evidence from Europe (Chayanov: 1966; Symes: 1972); Africa (Jones: 1949; Basehart: 197…
General, Applied, and Theoretical: L'homme, le fait social et le fait politique. Georges Davy
The crazy curse and crude domination
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…
Marriage Payments, Household Structure, and Domestic Labour-Supply among the Barma of Chad
Opening ParagraphThis paper investigates the relationship between marriage payments, household structure, and domestic labour-supply among the Barma of the Republic of Chad. Recently, Netting has noted that '...household composition among farmers varies with the type and amount of labor required for effective crop production' (1974: 29). Netting is supported by evidence from Europe (Chayanov: 1966; Symes: 1972); Africa (Jones: 1949; Basehart: 197…
The jeweler's loupe: Validation
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…
Vision Statement: Anthropological Theory from and for Everybody
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
General, Applied, and Theoretical: L'homme, le fait social et le fait politique. Georges Davy
Marriage Payments, Household Structure, and Domestic Labour-Supply among the Barma of Chad
Opening ParagraphThis paper investigates the relationship between marriage payments, household structure, and domestic labour-supply among the Barma of the Republic of Chad. Recently, Netting has noted that '...household composition among farmers varies with the type and amount of labor required for effective crop production' (1974: 29). Netting is supported by evidence from Europe (Chayanov: 1966; Symes: 1972); Africa (Jones: 1949; Basehart: 197…
Land in African Agrarian Systems. Thomas J. Bassett and Donald E. Crummey, editors. Madison, WI. and London: University of Wisconsin Press. 1993
Land in African Agrarian Systems. Thomas J. Bassett and Donald E. Crummey, editors. Madison, WI. and London: University of Wisconsin Press. 1993. xi, 418 pp. Reviewed by Stephen P. Reyna, Professor and Chair of Anthropology, University of New Hampshire, Durham
Theory to Combat Crisis
A Bureaucratic Drop in the Bucket: Who is Reviewing Science
I Am Dynamite: An Alternative Anthropology of Power. Nigel Rapport
Global Warring Today: "Maybe Somebody Needs to Explain"
The crazy curse and crude domination
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…
Taking place: ‘New Wars’ Versus Global Wars
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
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 …
Deadly contradictions: Global warring theory and the Iraq war, 1991–2011
Carbon Democracy: Political Power in the Age of OilTimothyMitchell (London and New York: Verso, 2012)
Vision Statement: Anthropological Theory from and for Everybody
TEST 02 - Elsevier's Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature. Search and access research from the science, technology, medicine, social sciences and arts and humanities fields
The jeweler's loupe: Validation
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: Making Points to Make Connections in the Sudanese Civil War
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…
The Depths of Russia: Oil, Power, and Culture after Socialism, by Douglas Rogers
Debate on possession, property, and production: Debating foundational concepts for anti-capitalist struggles
Debate on the nature and significance of Critique
Sociology (13 works) · History (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Economics (4 works)