Author

Gananath Obeyesekere

12 books

Books

  1. The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific 1992
11 more
  1. The Cult of the Goddess Pattini 1984
  2. Medusa's Hair 1981
  3. The two wheels of dhamma 1972
  4. Placating the Demons 2021
  5. Buddha in Sri Lanka 2017
  6. Imagining Karma 2002
  7. Land tenure in village Ceylon 1967
  8. Buddhism transformed 1988
  9. The Doomed King: A Requiem for Sri Vikrama Rajasinha 2017
  10. Cannibal Talk 2004
  11. The awakened ones 2012

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