Gananath Obeyesekere is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is the author of "Imagining Karma: Ethical" "Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth "(California, 2002), "The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the" "Pacific "(1997), "The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in" "Psychoanalysis and Anthropology "(1990), "The Cult of the Goddess Pattini" (1984), and "Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious" "Experience "(1984).