04030nam 22005772 450 991046120010332120151002020704.01-280-49117-597866135864070-85728-991-8(CKB)2670000000160414(EBL)875555(OCoLC)781260642(SSID)ssj0000632028(PQKBManifestationID)12309426(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000632028(PQKBWorkID)10599761(PQKB)10059365(UkCbUP)CR9780857289919(MiAaPQ)EBC875555(Au-PeEL)EBL875555(CaPaEBR)ebr10539044(CaONFJC)MIL358640(EXLCZ)99267000000016041420120305d2011|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe anthropologist and the native essays for Gananath Obeyesekere /edited by H.L. Seneviratne[electronic resource]London :Anthem Press,2011.1 online resource (493 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Cultural, historical and textual studies of religionsTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).0-85728-435-5 Includes bibliographical references.Section 1. The Indian tradition and its representation. Language and race in colonial representations of Indian society and culture / Partha Mitter ; When the Paramparā breaks : on gurus and students in the Mahābhārata / John Nemec ; The living and the dead : ideology and social dynamicss of ancestral commemoration in India / Patrick Olivelle ; On singularity : what Sanskrit poeticians believe to be real / David Shulman -- Section 2. Caste, kinship, land and community. Recasting a caste : the case of the Dadhich Brahmans / Lawrence A. Babb ; Reconstituting village communities : Sir William Gregory's efforts to renovate village agriculture in Ceylon's North Central Province / James Brow ; Dowry in Batticaloa : the historical transformation of a matrilineal property system / Dennis B. McGilvray -- Section 3. Renunciation and power. The morality of refusal / Arjun Appadurai ; Revolt in the temple : politics of a temple paintings project in Sri Lanka / H.L. Seneviratne ; Pain and power : reflections on ascetic agency / Peter van der Veer -- Section 4. Buddhism transformed. Buddhist revival and the 'work of culture' in Sri Lanka, past and present / Anne M. Blackburn ; Dharmapala's Buddhisms / Steven Kemper ; Religion and globalization from the historical perspective of Thai Buddhism / Donald K. Swearer -- Section 5. The enigma of the text. The mythology of the Kāmasūtra / Wendy Doniger ; Mandārampura Puvata : an apocryphal Buddhist chronicle / Kitsiri Malalgoda ; Variants as historical statements : the Rāma-kathā in early India / Romila Thapar -- Section 7. The anthropologist and the native. Plain tales from the field : reflections on fieldwork in three cultures / Arjun Guneratne ; The (re)turn of the native : ethnography, anthropology, and nativisim / Abdelmajid Hannoum ; The romance of the field? / R.L. Stirrat, Dinah Rajak ; Human rights and 'practical rationality' among Sri Lankan Tamils and Americans / Mark Whitaker.℗‘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.Cultural, historical and textual studies of religions.The Anthropologist & the NativeIndiaCivilization954Seneviratne H. L.1934-Obeyesekere GananathUkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910461200103321The anthropologist and the native2434598UNINA