The Anthropologist and the Native (eBook, PDF)

Essays for Gananath Obeyesekere
Redaktion: Seneviratne, H. L.

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Produktbeschreibung

'The Anthropologist and the Native' is a collection of twenty essays by internationally known scholars of different persuasions, honouring the distinguished anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Obeyesekere's writings include 'Land Tenure in Village Ceylon', 'Medusa's Hair', 'The Cult of the Goddess Pattini', 'Work of Culture', 'The Apotheosis of Captain Cook', 'Imagining Karma', 'Cannibal Talk', (with Richard Gombrich) 'Buddhism Transformed', and the forthcoming 'The Awakened Ones'. Professor Obeyesekere's contribution to South Asian studies and to anthropology is vast, and the rich variety of topics and approaches that marks this volume reflects his wide-ranging interests, constituting an apt tribute to his voluminous and inspiring work.

The authors featured in this collection are internationally known scholars from a variety of disciplines, including literary and textual studies, Indology, religion, history, social theory, art and anthropology. Reflecting Obeyesekere's wide interests, the volume is arranged into six sections dealing with the Indian tradition and its representation; caste, kinship, land and community; renunciation and power; Buddhism transformed; the enigma of the text; and lastly a section entitled 'The Anthropologist and the Native', a discussion of aspects of anthropological fieldwork that evokes Obeyesekere's extensive and intensive work dealing with his own society of Sri Lanka.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 494
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780857289919
• Artikelnr.: 44457184

Autorenporträt

H. L. Seneviratne

Inhaltsangabe

Editor’s Note; Section 1: The Indian Tradition and its Representation; 1.
Paratha Mitter, Language and Race in Colonial Representations of Indian
Society and Culture; 2. John Nemec, When the ‘Parampara’ Breaks: On Gurus
and Students in the Mahabharata; 3. Patrick Olivelle, The Living and the
Dead: Ideology and Social Dynamics of Ancestral Commemoration in India; 4.
David Shulman, On Singularity:  What Sanskrit Poeticians Believe to be
Real; Section 2: Caste, Kinship, Land and Community; 5. Lawrence A. Babb,
Recasting a Caste: The Case of the Dadhic Brahmans; 6. James Brow,
Reconstituting Village Communities: Sir William Gregory’s Efforts to
Renovate Village Agriculture in Ceylon’s North Central Province; 7. Dennis
McGilvray, Dowry in Batticaloa: The Historical Transformation of a
Matrilineal Property System; Section 3: Renunciation and Power; 8. Arjun
Appadurai, The Morality of Refusal; 9. H. L. Seneviratne, Revolt in the
Temple: Politics of a Paintings Project in Sri Lanka; 10. Peter Van der
Veer, Pain and Power: Reflections on Ascetic Agency; Section 4: Buddhism
Transformed; 11. Anne M. Blackburn, ‘Buddhist Revival’ and the ‘Work of
Culture’ in 19th-century Lanka; 12. Steven Kemper, Dharmapala’s Buddhisms;
13. Donald K. Swearer, Religion and Globalization from the Historical
Perspective of Thai Buddhism; Section 5: The Enigma of the Text; 14. Wendy
Doniger, The Mythology of the ‘Kamasutra’; 15. Malalgoda Kitsiri Malalgoda,
‘Mandarampura Puvata’: An Apocryphal Buddhist Chronicle; 16. Romila Thapar,
Variants as Historical Statements: The ‘Rama-Katha’ in Early India; Section
6: The Anthropologist and the Native; 17. Arjun Guneratne, Plain Tales from
the Field: Reflections on Fieldwork in Three Cultures; 18. Abdelmajid
Hannoum, The (Re)Turn of the Native: Ethnography, Anthropology, and
Nativism; 19. R. L. Stirrat and Dinah Rajak, Romance of the Field; 20. Mark
Whitaker, Human Rights and ‘Practical Rationality’ among Sri Lankan Tamils
and Americans