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The Anthropologist and the Native: Essays for Gananath ...
PreviewThis book is a collection of 20 essays by international scholars collated in honor of Gananath Obeyesekere, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, whose writings have contributed to the fields of South Asian studies and anthropology.
The Anthropologist and the Native: Essays for Gananath ...
Alessandro RoncagliaThis book is a collection of 20 essays by international scholars collated in honor of Gananath Obeyesekere, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University, whose writings have contributed to the fields of South Asian studies and anthropology.
The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience
Gananath ObeyesekereA career-culminating work, this volume translates the epistemology of Hindu and Buddhist thinkers for western audiences while revitalizing western philosophical and scientific inquiry.
Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious ...
Gananath ObeyesekereIn its analyses of the symbolism of guilt, the adaptational and integrative significance of belief in spirits, and a host of related issues concerning possession states and religiosity, this book marks a provocative advance in psychological ...
The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in ...
Gananath Obeyesekere"The Work of Culture is the product of two decades of field research by Sri Lanka's most distinguished anthropological interpreter, and its combination of textual analysis, ethnographic sensitivity, and methodological catholicity makes it ...
Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, ...
Gananath ObeyesekereThe sources I refer to are James Boon, “Incest Recaptured: Some Contraries of Karma in Balinese Symbology,” in Keyes and Daniel, Karma, 185–222; Linda H. Connor, “Contesting and Transforming the Work for the Dead in Bali: The Case of ...
Karma and Rebirth: A Cross Cultural Study
Gananath ObeyesekereAntonia Mills and Richard Slobodin, 263-83. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. . "Of Names and Signs: Reincarnation, Inheritance, and Social Structure on the Northwest Coast." Anthropology of Consciousness 1 (1990): 9-18. Matlock ...
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the ...
Gananath Obeyesekere113, 133. 103. Kuykendall, The Hawaiian Kingdom, pp. 39—60. 104. Glynn Barrett, The Russian Discovery of Hawaii (Honolulu: Editions Limited, 1987), p. 106. 105. Ibid. 106. Ibid., p. m. 107. Ibid., p. 113. 108. Campbell, A Voyage, p. ng. 109.
Como Pensam os " Nativos ": Sobre o Capitão Cook, Por Exemplo
MARSHALL DAVID SAHLINSEste longo ensaio constitui a resposta de Marshall Sahlins às acusações de Gananath Obeyesekere a respeito da perpetuação do mito europeu da irracionalidade indígena ao tratar da morte e da deificação do capitão Cook.
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