The anthropologist and the native essays for Gananath Obeyesekere /: essays for Gananath Obeyesekere. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Essays for Gananath Obeyesekere
• Further Information: Note: Edited by H.L. Seneviratne.
• Other Names: Seneviratne, H. L, 1934-; Obeyesekere, Gananath
• Contents: Section 1. The Indian tradition and its representation. Language and race in colonial representations of Indian society and culture / Partha Mitter ; When the Paramparā breaks : on gurus and students in the Mahābhārata / John Nemec ; The living an dthe dead : ideology and social dynamicss of ancestral commemoration in India / Patrick Olivelle ; On singularity : what Sanskrit poeticians believe to be real / David Schulman -- Section 2. Caste, kinship, land and community. Recasting a caste : the case of the Dadhich Brahmans / Lawrence A. Babb ; Reconstituting village communities : Sir William Gregory's efforts to renovate village agriculture in Ceylon's North Central Province / James Brow ; Dowry in Batticaloa : the historical transformation of a matrilineal property system / Dennis B. McGilvray -- Section 3. Renunciation and power. The morality of refusal / Arjun Appadurai ; Revolt in the temple : politics of a temple paintings project in Sri Lanka / H.L. Seneviratne ; Pain and power : reflections on ascetic agency / Peter van der Veer -- Section 4. Buddhist revival and the 'work of culture' in Sri Lanka, past and present / Anne M. Blackburn ; Dharmapala's Buddhisms / Steven Kemper ; Religion and globalization from the historical perspective of Thai Buddhism / Donald K. Swearer -- Section 5. The enigma of the text. The mythology of the Kāmasūtra / Wendy Doniger ; Mandārampura Puvata : an apocryphal Buddhist chronicle / Kitsiri Malalgoda ; Variants as historical statements : the Rāma-kathā in early India / Romila Thapar -- Section 7. The anthropologist and the native. Plain tales from the field : reflections on fieldwork in three cultures / Arjun Guneratne ; The (re)turn of the native : ethnography, anthropology, and nativisim / Abdelmajid Hannoum ; The romance of the field? / R. Stirrat, Dinah Rajak ; Human rights and 'practical rationality' among Sri Lankan Tamils and Americans / Mark Whitaker.
• Publisher Details: London : Anthem Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (493 pages), portrait
• Subjects: 294.5; RELIGION -- Hinduism -- General; Civilization; RELIGION / Hinduism / General; India -- Civilization; India; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0857289918; 9780857289919
• Related ISBNs: 9780857284358; 0857284355
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Print version record.
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