Gananath Obeyesekere

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According to Wikipedia, Gananath Obeyesekere is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University and has done much work in his home country of Sri Lanka. His research focuses on psychoanalysis and anthropology and the ways in which 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 , The Work of Culture, The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific, and Making Karma.

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Gananath Obeyesekere's Published Works

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The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific. (1992) (343)
Buddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri Lanka (1988) (322)
Medusa's hair : an essay on personal symbols and religious experience (1981) (249)
The work of culture : symbolic transformation in psychoanalysis and anthropology (1992) (248)
The Cult of the Goddess Pattini (1985) (145)
Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience (1982) (125)
Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth (2002) (123)
The Great Tradition and the Little in the Perspective of Sinhalese Buddhism (1963) (114)
Medusa's Hair (1981) (100)
In My Mother's House: Civil War in Sri Lanka (2011) (98)
The theory and practice of psychological medicine in the Ayurvedic tradition (1977) (83)
The idiom of demonic possession. A case study. (1970) (76)
The work of culture (1990) (67)
"British Cannibals": Contemplation of an Event in the Death and Resurrection of James Cook, Explorer (1992) (66)
Theodicy, Sin, and Salvation in a Sociology of Buddhism (1968) (60)
Writing Within: Anthropology, Nationalism, and Culture in Sri Lanka [and Comments and Reply] (1990) (54)
Land Tenure in Village Ceylon (1968) (49)
Some Comments on the Social Backgrounds of the April 1971 Insurgency in Sri Lanka (Ceylon) (1974) (46)
The Ritual Drama of the Sanni Demons: Collective Representations of Disease in Ceylon (1969) (45)
Hair : its power and meaning in Asian cultures (1999) (42)
Sorcery, Premeditated Murder, and the Canalization of Aggression in Sri Lanka (1975) (42)
The Fire-Walkers of Kataragama: The Rise of Bhakti Religiosity in Buddhist Sri Lanka (1978) (39)
Social Change and the Deities: Rise of the Kataragama Cult in Modern Sri Lanka (1977) (35)
Land Tenure in Village Ceylon: A Sociological and Historical Study (1967) (34)
Pregnancy Cravings (Dola‐Duka) in Relation to Social Structure and Personality in a Sinhalese Village1 (1963) (32)
Buddhism, nationhood, and cultural identity：a question of fundamentals (1995) (27)
The Two Wheels of the Dhamma: Essays on the Theravada Tradition in India and Ceylon (1973) (26)
Imagining Karma (2019) (25)
Buddhism Transformed (1989) (22)
Science and Psychological Medicine in the Ayurvedic Tradition (1982) (20)
Buddhism in Ceylon and Studies on Religious Syncretism in Buddhist Countries (1981) (19)
6 The Buddha’s Meditative Trance Visionary Knowledge, Aphoristic Thinking, and Axial Age Rationality in Early Buddhism (2012) (18)
BUDDHISM, ETHNICITY, AND IDENTITY: A PROBLEM IN BUDDHIST HISTORY (2006) (17)
Depression, Buddhism and the Work of Culture 1 (2017) (17)
The Anthropology of Cannibalism (2001) (16)
Sinhalese-Buddhist identity in Ceylon (1982) (16)
Between the Portuguese and the Nāyakas:: the many faces of the Kandyan Kingdom, 1591–1765 (2017) (14)
The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience (2012) (13)
The Apotheosis of Captain Cook (2021) (13)
The Many Faces of Murukan: The History and Meaning of a South Indian God@@@Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience (1982) (11)
Personal Identity and Cultural Crisis The Case of Anagārika Dharmapala of Sri Lanka (1976) (10)
Cannibalism Reconsidered Responses to Marshall Sahlins (2003) (10)
Symbolic Foods: Pregnancy Cravings and the Envious Female (1985) (9)
Crime and aggression in changing Ceylon (1963) (8)
Ayurveda and Mental Illness (1970) (8)
Psychological Release: Comic Ritual Dramas in Sri Lanka (1976) (7)
Foreword: Reincarnation Eschatologies and the Comparative Study of Religions (1994) (6)
The Coming of Brahmin Migrants: The Śudra Fate of an Indian Elite in Sri Lanka (2015) (5)
Methodological and Philosophical Relativism (1966) (5)
Deep motivation and the work of culture in Christian penitential ecstasy (2010) (5)
The Conscience of the Parricide: A Study in Buddhist History (1989) (5)
Sex, Repression, and Sanskritization in Sri Lanka? (2007) (5)
Religion and Polity in Theravada Buddhism: Continuity and Change in a Great Tradition. A Review Article (1979) (4)
The cultural background of Sinhalese medicine. (1969) (3)
The Goddess Pattini and the Lord Buddha (1973) (3)
The Tale of the Demoness Kāḷī: A Discourse on Evil (1990) (3)
Amerindian rebirth and Buddhist karma : an anthropologist's reflections on comparative religious ethics (1996) (3)
Human Spirits: A Cultural Account of Trance in Mayotte, by Michael Lambek (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge Studies in Cultural Systems, 1981, pp. 219). (1984) (2)
The Visionary Experience (2012) (2)
Captain James Cook.@@@The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific.@@@How "Natives" Think: About Captain Cook, For Example. (1997) (2)
Re-Weaving the Argument: A Response to Parker (1995) (2)
The spirits of the dead (2021) (2)
The natural history of a land tenure system (1964) (2)
Avalokiteśvara's Aliases and Guises (1993) (2)
The Illusory Pursuit of the Self: A Review of "Culture and Self: Asian and Western Perspectives"@@@Culture and Self: Asian and Western Perspectives (1990) (2)
King and Brahmin in South Indian Kingship: a Symbolic Perspective (1988) (1)
How to Write a Cook Book: Mythic and Other Realities in Anthropological Writing , Response: Gananath Obeyesekere (1994) (1)
The Demoness Kali and the Lord Buddha : A parable for our times 1 (2017) (1)
Thinking Globally about Buddhism (2006) (1)
Under the Bo Tree: Studies in Caste, Kinship, and Marrige in the Interior of Ceylon. NUR YALMAN (1968) (1)
Cook: The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James Cook (2006) (1)
The Forest Monks of Sri Lanka: An Anthropological and Historical Study. MICHAEL CARRITHERS: The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets: A Study in Charisma, Hagiography, Sectarianism and Millennial Buddhism. STANLEY J. TAMBIAH (1985) (1)
The Cosmic “It” (2012) (1)
The Goddess Pattini and the Parable on Justice 1 (2017) (1)
Re-Reflections on Pattini and Medusa (1987) (1)
The Left-Right Subcastes in South India: A Critique (Review Article) (1975) (1)
7. Narratives of the Self: Chevalier Peter Dillon’s Fijian Cannibal Adventures (2019) (1)
ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE COOK MYTH: A Response to Critics 1 (2016) (0)
Book 2. Mahāyāna: Salvific Emptiness, Fullness of Vision (2012) (0)
Sigiriya Narratives : Tellers of stories, writers of histories * (2017) (0)
Book 3. The Cosmic “It”: The Abstract Being of the Intellectuals (2012) (0)
Book 5. Christian Dissent: The Protest Against Reason (2012) (0)
Michael J. Egan 1940–1977 (1978) (0)
Response to Victor Li (2003) (0)
Liberals and cannibals: the implications of diversity – Lukes, Steven (2006) (0)
8. On Quartering and Cannibalism and the Discourses of Savagism (2019) (0)
5. Eschatology and Soteriology in Greek Rebirth (2019) (0)
Book 8. Contemporary Dreaming: Secular Spirituality and Revelatory Truth (2012) (0)
3. The Imaginary Experiment and the Buddhist Implications (2019) (0)
Buddhism and the Idea of the Self : A critique of ethnography 1 (2017) (0)
GENERAL AND ETHNOLOGY: Southeast Asian Birth Customs: Three Studies in Human Reproduction. Donn V. Hart, Phya Anuman Rajadhon, and Richard J. Coughlin (1967) (0)
Illness and Healing among the Sakhalin Ainu: A Symbolic Interpretation. EMIKO OHNUKITIERNEY (1983) (0)
Imprisoning Frames and Open DebatesTrobriander, Buddhist, and Balinese Rebirth Revisited (2002) (0)
6. Cannibal Feasts in Nineteenth- Century Fiji: Seamen’s Yarns and the Ethnographic Imagination (2019) (0)
A tribute to the life and work of Leslie Gunawardana – South Asia Citizens Web (2019) (0)
An Intellectual History of Cannibalism. By Cătălin Avramescu. Translated by Alistair Ian Blyth. (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2009. Pp.viii, 350. $29.95.) (2011) (0)
Sorcery and premeditated murder (2021) (0)
Introduction : Tellers of stories, writers of histories:essays on the Buddhist past (2017) (0)
Book Review:The Rise of the Labour Movement in Ceylon Visakha Kumari Jayawardene (1975) (0)
Anthropology and the Man-Eating Myth (2005) (0)
Book 6. Theosophies: West Meets East (2012) (0)
Duṭṭhagāmani (Dutthagamani) : The Buddhist conscience of a warrior king 1 (2017) (0)
Modernity and the Dreaming (2012) (0)
King and Brahmin in South Indian Kingship: A Symbolic Perspective@@@The King and the Clown in South Indian Myth and Poetry (1988) (0)
Distorted Priorities in Sri Lanka (1996) (0)
1. Karma and Rebirth in Indic Religions: Origins and Transformations (2019) (0)
The Death of Captain Cook: A Hero Made and Unmade (review) (2009) (0)
2. Non-Indic Theories of Rebirth (2019) (0)
The Buddhist Ascesis (2002) (0)
Envoi—Intimations of Mortality (2012) (0)
Book 7. Modernity and the Dreaming (2012) (0)
Kataragama : a God for all seasons (2009) (0)
From demon to god (2021) (0)
6. Rebirth and Reason (2019) (0)
4. Savage Indignation: Cannibalism and the Parodic (2019) (0)
A Review of Medusa's Hair (1983) (0)
Personal Identity and Cultural Crisis (2017) (0)
Book 1. The Visionary Experience: Theoretical Understandings (2012) (0)
The Sanni demons (2021) (0)
POLITICAL VIOLENCE OF DEMOCRACY AND THE FUTURE IN SRI LANKA (2016) (0)
Re- Weaving the Argument: A Response to (2016) (0)
Hindu Medicine and the Aroma of Structuralism (1991) (0)
Book 4. Penitential Ecstasy: The Dark Night of the Soul (2012) (0)
3. Concerning Violence: A Backward Journey into Maori Anthropophagy (2019) (0)
Portrait: Gananath Obeyesekere (2014) (0)
5. The Later Fate of Heads: Cannibalism, Decapitation, and Capitalism (2019) (0)
The Buddha in Sri Lanka: Histories and Stories (2017) (0)
The Death of the Buddha : A restorative interpretation 1 (2017) (0)
Placating the Demons (2021) (0)
To Steal a Kingdom. By Michael Dougherty. (Waimanalo, Hawai'i and The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific. By Gananath Obeyesekere. (Princeton (1994) (0)
Envoi—Intimations of Mortality: The Ethnographer’S Dream and the Return of the Vultures (2012) (0)
“British Cannibals”: Dialogical Misunderstandings in the South Seas (2005) (0)

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