Gananath Obeyesekere
Gananath Obeyesekere (2 February 1930 – 25 March 2025) was a Sri Lankan 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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