Gananath Obeyesekere

Gananath Obeyesekere

Gananath Obeyesekereis Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and is one of the world's leading anthropologists, who has done much work in his home country of Sri Lanka. In the 1990's he entered into intellectual debate with Marshal Sahlins over the rationality of indigenous peoples.

Books

*"Land Tenure In Village Ceylon : A Sociological And Historical Study", 1967
*"Medusa's Hair : An Essay On Personal Symbols And Religious Experience", 1981
*"The Cult Of The Goddess Pattini", 1984
*"Buddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri Lanka" (with Richard Gombrich), 1988
*"The Work Of Culture : Symbolic Transformation In Psychoanalysis And Anthropology", 1990
*"The Apotheosis Of Captain Cook : European Mythmaking In The Pacific", 1992
*"Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth", 2002
*"Cannibal Talk : The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas", 2005
*"Karma and Rebirth", 2005

External links

* [http://artsrilanka.org/authors/gananathobeyesekere.html Gananath Obeyesekere]
* [http://globetrotter.berkeley.edu/people3/Obeyesekere/obey-con0.html Conversation with Professor Gananath Obeyesekere]


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