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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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2. John Nemec, When the ‘Parampara’ Breaks: On Gurus and Students in the Mahabharata
3. Patrick Olivelle, The Living and the Dead: Ideology and Social Dynamics of Ancestral Commemoration in India
4. David Shulman, On Singularity: What Sanskrit Poeticians Believe to be Real
Section II: Caste, Kinship, Land and Community
5. Lawrence A. Babb, Recasting a Caste: The Case of the Dadhic Brahmans
6. James Brow, Reconstituting Village Communities: Sir William Gregory’s Efforts to Renovate Village Agriculture in Ceylon’s North Central Province
7. Dennis B. McGilvray, Dowry in Batticaloa: The Historical Transformation of a Matrilineal Property System
Section III. Renunciation and Power
8. Arjun Appadurai, The Morality of Refusal
9. H. L. Seneviratne, Revolt in the Temple: Politics of a Paintings Project in Sri Lanka
10. Peter Van der Veer, Pain and Power: Reflections on Ascetic Agency
Section IV: Buddhism Transformed
11. Anne M. Blackburn, ‘Buddhist Revival’ and the ‘Work of Culture’ in 19th-century Lanka
12. Steven Kemper, Dharmapala’s Buddhisms
13. Donald K. Swearer, Religion and Globalization from the Historical Perspective of Thai Buddhism
Section V: The Enigma of the Text
14. Wendy Doniger, The Mythology of the ‘Kamasutra’
15. Malalgoda Kitsiri Malalgoda, ‘Mandarampura Puvata’: An Apocryphal Buddhist Chronicle
16. Romila Thapar, Variants as Historical Statements: The ‘Rama-Katha’ in Early India
Section VI: The Anthropologist and the Native
17. Arjun Guneratne, Plain Tales from the Field: Reflections on Fieldwork in Three Culturestled
18. Abdelmajid Hannoum, The (Re)Turn of the Native: Ethnography, Anthropology, and Nativism
19. R. L. Stirrat and Dinah Rajak, Romance of the Field
20. Mark Whitaker, Human Rights and ‘Practical Rationality’ among Sri Lankan Tamils and Americans
The Anthropologist and the Native
：Essays for Gananath Obeyesekere
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