Gananath Obeyesekere is emeritus professor of anthropology at Princeton University and has done much work in his home country of Sri Lanka. His research...

rainfall, music and peace. The debate took shape in 1992, when Gananath Obeyesekere published The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, which criticized the work...

era legislator of Ceylon Gananath Obeyesekere, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University James Peter Obeyesekere I (????-1880), colonial...

professor Gananath Obeyesekere describes The Conquest of America as "one of the most provocative books of our time." At the same time, Obeyesekere critiques...

epic "cannot have been composed before the 5th- or 6th-century". Gananath Obeyesekere – a scholar of Buddhism, Sri Lankan religious history and anthropology...

Richard Gombrich, Gananath Obeyesekere (1988) "Buddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri Lanka" pp.30,31 Gananath Obeyesekere (1990) "The Work of...

Lanka, by Richard Gombrich, Gananath Obeyesekere, 1999 Blood, Peter R, Popular Sinhalese Religion Obeyesekere, Gananath. “Social Change and the Deities:...

and the authenticity of this attribution is doubtful. According to Gananath Obeyesekere, the story of the purported Cilappadikaram author Ilango Adigal as...

some memoirs. The term 'Protestant Buddhism,' coined by scholar Gananath Obeyesekere, is often applied to Dharmapala's form of Buddhism. It is Protestant...

presented in support of it, was challenged in 1992 by Gananath Obeyesekere in the so-called Sahlins–Obeyesekere debate. After a month's stay, Cook attempted to...