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  • Placating the Demons
    Gananath Obeyesekere
    This book critically examines dominant ceremonial practices in Sri Lanka. It presents key ideas and symbolic systems that exist to this day, in similar shapes or in different guises. ...
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    83,02 €

  • The Buddha in Sri Lanka
    Gananath Obeyesekere
    This book examines culture, religion and polity in the context of Buddhism. It offers a restorative interpretation of Buddhist myths and deals with oral traditions and stories, the religious pantheon, philosophy, emotions, reform movements, identity and culture, and issues of modernity. ...
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    79,36 €

  • Land Tenure in Village Ceylon
    Gananath Obeyesekere / Obeyesekere Gananath
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    53,97 €

  • The Apotheosis of Captain Cook
    Gananath Obeyesekere
    Here Gananath Obeyesekere debunks one of the most enduring myths of imperialism, civilization, and conquest: the notion that the Western civilizer is a god to savages. Using shipboard journals and logs kept by Captain James Cook and his officers, Obeyesekere reveals the captain as both the self-conscious civilizer and as the person who, his mission gone awry, becomes a 'savage'...
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    60,92 €

  • Buddhism Transformed
    Gananath Obeyesekere / Richard Gombrich
    In this study a social and cultural anthropologist and a specialist in the study of religion pool their talents to examine recent changes in popular religion in Sri Lanka. As the Sinhalas themselves perceive it, Buddhism proper has always shared the religious arena with a spirit religion. While Buddhism concerns salvation, the spirit religion focuses on worldly welfare. Buddhis...
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    61,60 €