The Anthropologist and the Native

'The Anthropologist and the Native' is a collection of twenty essays by internationally known scholars of different persuasions, honouring the distinguished anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere. The essays are arranged in six sections covering a range of topics that reflect Obeyesekere's wide interests, making it a truly multidisciplinary volume. The areas covered include the Indian tradition and its representation, textual elucidation, renunciation, and the transformaion of Buddhism.

H. L. Seneviratne is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Rituals of the Kandyan State (Cambridge University Press, 1978) and The Work of Kings: The New Buddhism in Sri Lanka (University of Chicago Press, 1999), and is the editor of Identity, Consciousness and the Past (Oxford University Press, 1997).