Gananath Obeyesekere Sri Lankan Anthropologist
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| Birthday |
2nd February, 1930
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| Died |
25th March, 2025
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| Zodiac Sign |
Aquarius
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| Nationality |
Sri Lankan
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| Occupation Text |
Anthropologist, professor
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| Occupation |
Anthropologist
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Gananath Obeyesekere (2 February 1930 – 25 March 2025) was an anthropologist of religion and professor of anthropology at Princeton University. His research focused on psychoanalysis and anthropology and how personal symbolism is related to religious experience, in addition to the European exploration of Polynesia in the 18th century and after, and the implications of these voyages for the development of ethnography. His books include Land Tenure in Village Ceylon, Medusa's Hair, The Cult of the Goddess Pattini, Buddhism Transformed (coauthor), The Work of Culture, The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific, and Making Karma. He did much of his fieldwork in Sri Lanka.
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