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Titolo: | The anthropologist and the native : essays for Gananath Obeyesekere / / edited by H.L. Seneviratne [[electronic resource]] |
Pubblicazione: | London : , : Anthem Press, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (493 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 954 |
Soggetto geografico: | India Civilization |
Persona (resp. second.): | SeneviratneH. L. <1934-> |
ObeyesekereGananath | |
Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Sommario/riassunto: | ℗‘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. |
Altri titoli varianti: | The Anthropologist & the Native |
Titolo autorizzato: | The anthropologist and the native |
ISBN: | 1-280-49117-5 |
9786613586407 | |
0-85728-991-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910461200103321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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