The Anthropologist and the Native: Essays for Gananath Obeyesekere

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The Anthropologist and the Native

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Publisher:: Anthem Press
Online publication date:: May 2012
Print publication year:: 2011
Online ISBN:: 9780857289919
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.7135/UPO9780857289919

Subjects:: Buddhism and Eastern Religions, Religion

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The Anthropologist and the Native is a multidisciplinary volume of twenty essays by internationally known scholars of different persuasions, honouring the distinguished anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere.

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Frontmatter
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Contents
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Editor's Note
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The Anthropologist and the Native: Essays for Gananath Obeyesekere
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SECTION I - THE INDIAN TRADITION AND ITS REPRESENTATION
pp 17-18
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Language and Race in Colonial Representations of Indian Society and Culture
pp 19-34
- By Partha Mitter, University of Sussex
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When the Paramparā Breaks: On Gurus and Students in the Mahābhārata
pp 35-64
- By John Nemec, University of Virginia
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The Living and the Dead: Ideology and Social Dynamics of Ancestral Commemoration in India
pp 65-74
- By Patrick Olivelle, University of Texas
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On Singularity: What Sanskrit Poeticians Believe to be Real
pp 75-100
- By David Shulman, University of Jerusalem
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SECTION II - CASTE, KINSHIP, LAND AND COMMUNITY
pp 101-102
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Recasting a Caste: The Case of the Dadhich Brahmans
pp 103-124
- By Lawrence A. Babb, Amherst College in Massachusetts
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Reconstituting Village Communities: Sir William Gregory's Efforts to Renovate Village Agriculture in Ceylon's North Central Province
pp 125-136
- By James Brow, University of Texas
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Dowry in Batticaloa: The Historical Transformation of a Matrilineal Property System
pp 137-160
- By Dennis B. McGilvray, University of Colorado
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SECTION III - RENUNCIATION AND POWER
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The Morality of Refusal
pp 163-178
- By Arjun Appadurai, Yale University
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Revolt in the Temple: Politics of a Temple Paintings Project in Sri Lanka
pp 179-202
- By H.L. Seneviratne, University of Virginia
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Pain and Power: Reflections on Ascetic Agency
pp 203-218
- By Peter van der Veer, Utrecht University
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SECTION IV - BUDDHISM TRANSFORMED
pp 219-220
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‘Buddhist Revival’ and the ‘Work of Culture’ in Sri Lanka, Past and Present
pp 221-246
- By Anne M. Blackburn, Cornell University
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Dharmapala's Buddhisms
pp 247-272
- By Steven Kemper, Bates College
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Religion and Globalization from the Historical Pespective of Thai Buddhism
pp 273-290
- By Donald K. Swearer, Swarthmore College
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SECTION V - THE ENIGMA OF THE TEXT
pp 291-292
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The Mythology of the Kāmasūtra
pp 293-316
- By Wendy Doniger, University of Chicago
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Mandārampura Puvata: An Apocryphal Buddhist Chronicle
pp 317-348
- By Kitsiri Malalgoda, University of Peradeniya
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Variants as Historical Statements: The Rāma-kathā in Early India
pp 349-394
- By Romila Thapar, Nehru University
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SECTION VI - THE ANTHROPOLOGIST AND THE NATIVE
pp 395-396
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Plain Tales from the Field: Reflections on Fieldwork in Three Cultures
pp 397-422
- By Arjun Guneratne, Macalester College
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The (Re)Turn of the Native: Ethnography, Anthropology, and Nativism
pp 423-444
- By Abdelmajid Hannoum, University of Kansas
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The Romance of the Field?
pp 445-470
- By R.L. Stirrat, University of Sussex, Dinah Rajak, University of Sussex
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Human Rights and ‘Practical Rationality’ among Sri Lankan Tamils and Americans
pp 471-486
- By Mark Whitaker, University of South Carolina
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