by polity.lk | Mar 13, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
Gananath’s Tryst with Lawyers Radhika Coomaraswamy After the International Centre for Ethnic Studies (ICES) was set up in 1982, it gradually became a dynamic centre for the interaction between lawyers and social scientists, especially anthropologists. Led by Dr....
by polity.lk | Mar 10, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
An Accidental Education with Gananath Obeyesekere Mark P. Whitaker I must begin with an embarrassing admission. Although Gananath Obeyesekere became my PhD thesis supervisor in 1981, our association was accidental; or perhaps I should say fortuitously...
by polity.lk | Mar 3, 2026 | Gananath Obeyesekere
Gananath: Two Stories and A Review Victor C. de Munck I was an undergraduate, and later a graduate, student of Gananath.[1] I have two stories I would like to recount. The first was as an undergraduate, when I got to know how he taught in class; the second was in Sri...
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....
