His wide-ranging work drew on field research in his native Sri Lanka as well as his extensive study of English literature and ...

On March 25, the renowned Sri Lankan social anthropologist Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere of Princeton University, passed away ...

Ratnayake, Premasiri Khemadasa, Gunadasa Amarasekara, and Siri Gunasinghe. I could have added to this list Gananath Obeyesekere, Sri Lanka’s foremost anthropologist, who passed away a day after ...

Gananath Obeyesekere’s contribution to anthropology is vast and varied, and few have combined theory and empirical fact so skillfully as he has done. At the time he graduated from the University of ...

For his students and others who derive inspiration from his life, research, publications and lectures, in shot by his very being, Gananath has set very high scholarly standards. He encouraged critical ...

Emeritus professor of anthropology Gananath Obeyesekere has passed away at the age of 95. Obeyesekere, a renowned professor ...

Photo courtesy of The Island Professor Gananath Obeyesekere was an excellent teacher, researcher and scholar as well as an ...

Photo courtesy of The Island In my tribute to her last week, I noted that Sumitra Peries belonged to a generation which also ...