by polity.lk | Feb 24, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
Obeyesekere the Dreamer: Visionary Journeys in Anthropology Anushka Kahandagamage I remember vividly one pattern in my youthful dreams repeated time and again, without too much variation, that of roads amidst green hills and open spaces and people in little Sri Lankan...
by polity.lk | Feb 18, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
Gananath Obeyesekere: The Anthropologist and the Historian John D. Rogers I first met Gananath at the Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies in Washington DC in March 1984, several weeks after I had returned to the United States after completing my PhD...
by polity.lk | Feb 14, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
The Creation of the Hunter. The Vädda Presence in the Kandyan Kingdom: A Re-Examination. Gananath Obeyesekere. Colombo: Sailfish, 2022. R. S. Perinbanayagam Robert Siddharthan Perinbanayagam died on 5 November 2025 in New York City where he lived most of his life....
by polity.lk | Feb 10, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
‘Guru-Ship’: An Epistemological Turn in My Anthropological Education Sanmugeswaran Pathmanesan This paper narrates the epistemological shift that took place in my anthropology learning journey, mapping how the guru-ship system functioned as both an educational and...
by polity.lk | Feb 2, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
Gananath: Renaissance Man R. L. Stirrat I met Gananath in July 1969 on the day I first arrived in Sri Lanka, Edmund Leach and Stanley Tambiah having imposed their naive research student on the Obeyesekeres. Throughout my first period of field research, between 1969...
