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...
by polity.lk | Aug 16, 2017 | Gananath Obeyesekere
The Doomed King: A Requiem for Sri Vikrama Rajasinha Harini Amarasuriya Polity Volume 7, Issue 2, pp. 78-80 (Download PDF) Harini Amarasuriya in her observations on Gananath Obeyesekere’s latest work The Doomed King: A Requiem for Sri Vikrama Rajasinha,...
by polity.lk | Feb 18, 2010 | Gananath Obeyesekere
R.A.L.H. Gunawardana – An Appreciation of His Life and Scholarly Contributions Gananath Obeyesekere...
