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...
by polity.lk | Jan 27, 2026 | Review
A Critical History of Women’s Health in Modern Sri Lanka. Darshi Thoradeniya. Orient BlackSwan (New Delhi), 2024. Carmen Wickramagamage Darshi Thoradeniya’s book, A Critical History of Women’s Health in Modern Sri Lanka, unearths the submerged and complicated history...
by polity.lk | Jan 20, 2026 | Ecology
From Living With, to Drowning Under, Floods: A Village Transformed Shashik Silva Welewatta has always flooded. This village in the Kolonnawa Divisional Secretariat (DS), home to 1424 families, floods when the Kelani River swells during the rainy season. Water...
