• Gananath Obeyesekere is emeritus professor of anthropology at Princeton University and has done much work in his home country of Sri Lanka. His research...
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  • era legislator of Ceylon Gananath Obeyesekere, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University James Peter Obeyesekere II (1879–1968), Head Mudaliyar...
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    rainfall, music and peace. The debate took shape in 1992, when Gananath Obeyesekere published The Apotheosis of Captain Cook, which criticized the work...
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  • professor Gananath Obeyesekere describes The Conquest of America as "one of the most provocative books of our time." At the same time, Obeyesekere critiques...
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    epic "cannot have been composed before the 5th- or 6th-century". Gananath Obeyesekere – a scholar of Buddhism, Sri Lankan religious history and anthropology...
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    Lanka, by Richard Gombrich, Gananath Obeyesekere, 1999 Blood, Peter R, Popular Sinhalese Religion Obeyesekere, Gananath. “Social Change and the Deities:...
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    and the authenticity of this attribution is doubtful. According to Gananath Obeyesekere, the story of the purported Cilappadikaram author Ilango Adigal as...
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    some memoirs. The term 'Protestant Buddhism,' coined by scholar Gananath Obeyesekere, is often applied to Dharmapala's form of Buddhism. It is Protestant...
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    in support of it, were challenged in 1992 by Gananath Obeyesekere in the so-called Sahlins–Obeyesekere debate. After a month's stay, Cook attempted to...
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    (1996), An Introduction to Hinduism, Cambridge University Press Gananath Obeyesekere, Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist...
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