"The Work of Kings" is a stunning new look at the turbulent modern history and sociology of the Sri Lankan Buddhist Monkhood and its effects upon contemporary society. Using never-before translated Sinhalese documents and extensive interviews with monks, Sri Lankan anthropologist H.L. Seneviratne unravels the inner workings of this New Buddhism and the ideology on which it is based. Beginning with Anagarika Dharmapala's "rationalization" of Buddhism in the early twentieth century, which called for monks to take on a more activist role in the community, Seneviratne shows how the monks have...
"The Work of Kings" is a stunning new look at the turbulent modern history and sociology of the Sri Lankan Buddhist Monkhood and its effects upon cont...
'The Anthropologist and the Native' is a collection of twenty essays by internationally known scholars of different persuasions, honouring the distinguished anthropologist Gananath Obeyesekere, Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. Obeyesekere's writings include 'Land Tenure in Village Ceylon', 'Medusa's Hair', 'The Cult of the Goddess Pattini', 'Work of Culture', 'The Apotheosis of Captain Cook', 'Imagining Karma', 'Cannibal Talk', (with Richard Gombrich) 'Buddhism Transformed', and the forthcoming 'The Awakened Ones'. Professor Obeyesekere's contribution to South Asian studies and...
'The Anthropologist and the Native' is a collection of twenty essays by internationally known scholars of different persuasions, honouring the dist...
