Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah was a social anthropologist and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. He specialised in studies of Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Tamils, as well as the anthropology of religion and politics.
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- Magic, Science, Religion, and the Scope of Rationality (1991) (577)
- A Performative Approach to Ritual (1979) (442)
- The Magical Power of Words (1968) (420)
- Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in South Asia (1996) (419)
- Sri Lanka--Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy (1987) (348)
- Bridewealth and Dowry (1974) (337)
- Culture, Thought, and Social Action: An Anthropological Perspective (1985) (325)
- Animals Are Good to Think and Good to Prohibit (1969) (323)
- Buddhism Betrayed?: Religion, Politics, and Violence in Sri Lanka (1993) (282)
- World conqueror and world renouncer : a study of Buddhism and polity in Thailand against a historical background (1976) (265)
- The buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets (1984) (193)
- Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in North-East Thailand (1970) (186)
- World conqueror and world renouncer (1976) (185)
- THE GALACTIC POLITY: THE STRUCTURE OF TRADITIONAL KINGDOMS IN SOUTHEAST ASIA * (1977) (159)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand against a Historical Background (1978) (144)
- Ethnic Conflict in the World Today (1989) (132)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: A Study of Buddhism and Polity in Thailand Against a Historical Background. (1977) (87)
- Bridewealth and Dowry Revisited: The Position of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa and North India [and Comments and Reply] (1989) (86)
- The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: Contents (1984) (72)
- Presidential Address: Reflections on Communal Violence in South Asia (1990) (57)
- The galactic polity in Southeast Asia (2013) (53)
- The cosmological and performative significance of a Thai cult of healing through meditation (1977) (45)
- The Character of Kinship: From Varna to Caste through Mixed Unions (1974) (44)
- Political Buddhism in Southeast Asia: The role of the Sangha in the modernization of Thailand (1978) (42)
- Form and meaning of magical acts: A point of view (2017) (40)
- Buddhism and This-worldly Activity (1973) (35)
- Kinship Fact and Fiction in Relation to the Kandyan Sinhalese (1965) (34)
- 2. Form and Meaning of Magical Acts (1985) (29)
- Anthropological Studies in Theravada Buddhism. (1967) (28)
- Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life (2002) (27)
- Transnational Movements, Diaspora, and Multiple Modernities (2017) (25)
- The Structure of Kinship and its Relationship to Land Possession and Residence in Pata Dumbara, Central Ceylon (1958) (23)
- The Politics of Language in India and Ceylon (1967) (22)
- Ethnicities and nations : processes of interethnic relations in Latin America, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific (1990) (21)
- The renouncer: his individuality and his community (1981) (19)
- Thai Peasant Personality: The Patterning of Interpersonal Behaviour in the Village of Bang Chan. (1966) (16)
- Friends, neighbors, enemies, strangers: aggressor and victim in civilian ethnic riots. (1997) (14)
- Urban Riots and Cricket in South Asia: A Postscript to ‘Leveling Crowds’ (2005) (11)
- On Flying Witches And Flying Canoes: The Coding Of Male And Female Values (1983) (11)
- Does Labor Time Decrease with Industrializa- tion? A Survey of Time-Allocation Studies' (2016) (10)
- At the Confluence of Anthropology, History, and Indology (1987) (8)
- The Buddhist Conception of Kingship and Its Historical Manifestations: A Reply to Spiro (1978) (8)
- Secularization of Family Values in Ceylon (1957) (8)
- GENERAL AND THEORETICAL: Homo Hierarchicus: An Essay on the Caste System. LOUIS DUMONT (1972) (8)
- What did Bernier actually say? Profiling the Mughal empire (1998) (8)
- The Buddhist Cosmos: Paradise Lost, Gained, and Transcended (1984) (6)
- In the Grand Style (1969) (6)
- The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: CAMBRIDGE STUDIES IN SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY (1984) (6)
- Social Change in Modern India . By M. N. Srinivas. University of California Press: Berkeley and Los Angeles, and Cambridge University Press: London, 1966. Pp. xv + 194, 40s. (1967) (4)
- Leveling Crowds (2023) (4)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: The Galactic Polity (1976) (4)
- Famous Buddha Images and the Legitimation of Kings: The Case of the Sinhala Buddha (Phra Sihing) in Thailand (1982) (4)
- OBLITERATING THE OTHER IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA (1998) (3)
- The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: The sources of charismatic leadership: Max Weber revisited (1984) (3)
- The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: The cult of images and amulets (1984) (3)
- 9. A Reformulation of Geertz’s Conception of the Theater State (1985) (3)
- Continuity, integration and expanding horizons (1997) (3)
- On the subject of Buddhism Betrayed? a rejoinder (1997) (2)
- The Sources of Charismatic Leadership: Max Weber Revisited (2019) (2)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: Thai Kingship and Polity in Historical Perspective (1976) (2)
- Introduction From the General to the Particular and the Construction of Totalities (1985) (2)
- 8. The Routinization and Ritualization of Violence (1996) (2)
- Tribal Society as seen from Manchester (1966) (2)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: Missionary Monks ( Thammathud ) and National Development (1976) (1)
- 3. A Thai Cult of Healing through Meditation (1985) (1)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: Dialectical Tensions, Continuities, Transformations, and the Uses of the Past (1976) (1)
- The Colombo Riots of 1983 (2011) (1)
- The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: The objectification of charisma and the fetishism of objects (1984) (1)
- The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: The Buddhist conception of the arahant (1984) (1)
- The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: The biography of a modern saint (1984) (1)
- Response: Collective Memory as a Witness to Collective Pain (2008) (0)
- The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: Amulets blessed by contemporary forest saints (1984) (0)
- The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: The biographer as exemplary forest-monk, meditator, and teacher (1984) (0)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: The Politics of National Development and the Symbols of Legitimacy (1976) (0)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: The Early Buddhist Conception of World Process, Dharma, and Kingship (1976) (0)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: Monkhood as an Avenue of Social Mobility (1976) (0)
- The stages and rewards of Buddhist meditation (1984) (0)
- The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: Sectarianism and the sponsorship of meditation (1984) (0)
- 7. Some General Features of Ethnic Riots and Riot Crowds (1996) (0)
- The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: The Buddha's life as paradigm (1984) (0)
- Asia and the Arab World I. D. S. Weerawardana. Ceylon General Election 1956. Pp. 262. Colombo: M. D. Gunasena & Company, 1960. Rs 15/— (1960) (0)
- FIGURES, MAPS, AND TABLES (1996) (0)
- Asoka Maurya: The Paradigm (1976) (0)
- The Sangha and the Polity: From Ayutthaya to Bangkok (1976) (0)
- Sri Lanka Introduction (2009) (0)
- The Path of Purification: the ascetic practices (1984) (0)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: From Rajadharma (the King's “Whole Duty”) to Dharmaraja (the “Righteous Ruler”) (1976) (0)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: The Sangha Acts of 1902, 1941, and 1963 (1976) (0)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: Introduction: Reconstructing a Journey (1976) (0)
- Conclusion An Anthropologist's Creed (1985) (0)
- Malinowski’s Demarcations and his Exposition of the Magical Art (2017) (0)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: The Composition and Distribution of Religious Personnel: What the Figures Say (1976) (0)
- The “likeness” of the image to the original Buddha: the case of the Siṅhala Buddha (1984) (0)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: The Nineteenth-Century Achievements of Religion and Sangha (1976) (0)
- Interview of S.J.Tambiah (2004) (0)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: The Kingdom of Ayutthaya: Design and Process (1976) (0)
- The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: The process of sacralizing images and amulets: the transfer of power by monks (1984) (0)
- The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: A commentary on millennial Buddhism in Thailand and Burma (1984) (0)
- The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: The center–periphery dialectic: the Mahāthāt and Bovonniwet sponsorship of meditation compared (1984) (0)
- 12. The Moral Economy of Collective Violence (1996) (0)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: Monastic Careers and Monastic Network (1976) (0)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: Reformism and Ideological Transformation Based on Tradition (1976) (0)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: The Brahmanical Theory of Society and Kingship (1976) (0)
- Roots for Social Anthropology (1969) (0)
- The disciples of the Master (1984) (0)
- Patronage of the Sangha and the Legitimation of the Polity (1976) (0)
- RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY EDWARD NORBECK. Religion in Primitive Society. Pp. xi, 318. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1961. $5.50 (1963) (0)
- World Conqueror and World Renouncer: Asokan and Sinhalese Traditions Concerning the Purification of the Sangha (1976) (0)
- The process of secularization in three Ceylonese peasant communities (1954) (0)
- The galactic polity in (2013) (0)
- 6. Ethnic Conflict in Pakistan (1996) (0)
- The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: The ordering principles behind Buddhist saintly biography (1984) (0)
- 2. Orientation and Objectives (1996) (0)
- The Buddhist saints of the forest and the cult of amulets: Note on transcription (1984) (0)
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