Gananath Obeyese, 95, died; Anthropologist closed the east and west

The anthropologist, a long career and social concepts, many other opinions and Christian mysticalism and Christian mysticalism and the leading world of Christian mystical and the leading world of the Western Academy, died at home in Sri Lanka. He was 95 years old.

The son of Asita confirmed the death.

Dr. Obezekere was born in a small village of Sri Lankan, and then the country, known as Ceylon, was still in the British Empire. Most of the career teaching in the United States, primarily in Princeton, its prestige was established as a principle sound, which is likely to be found in the form of colonization, pluralism and cultural sections.

Long among academicians, in 1992, in 1992, the “Captain Aspet of Apotebosis: European Mifgi in the Pacific Ocean” was the consciousness of the general public.

Cover. James Cook, after 1779 was taken by Hawaii by the Island, was returned unexpectedly and was killed by the same people who had previously welcomed it.

Among the historians and anthropologists, the concepts of the islands, the Captain Chef, the Captain’s Captain’s Captain’s Captain’s Captain and return to a god on the ship, said he fulfilled his belief in a god.

Dr. Obeyescere saw it differently. Hawaiians, believed, he just knew that he was a man; He respected him as an honorary chief, not God; and he killed him a more secular debate. When Westerners said, they then applied their prejudices about the Hawaiians, in a sense created their myths about people in his mif.

This is the “wrote” European God ‘, “I wrote,” conquest, myths of imperialism and civilization. “

Was between their goals Marshall SahlinsIn 1985, another famous anthropologist who defended the thesis prepared by God in the book “History Islands”.

Dr. Shahlins, Dr. with a second book. Responded to the Obeyese. “How” Nece ‘Nece’ (1995), “1995),” 1995) said Dr. Obeyesekere was a true imperialist, because the possibility that Hawaii could have a way that is completely different from the West.

Debate was wide, covered in New York Times and elsewhere. Dr. Obeyese rejected being an imperialist, but Dr. Sahlins were not completely wrong to say that he was looking for the partners between East and West. Most of Dr. Obeyesekere, a certain universal qualities of different cultures, including “practical rationality”, the main sense of seeing the world.

He was preparing to take a critical eye to political beliefs in Sri Lanka, although he laughed at home with an obsolete humor.

“For some critics, I should look like a foolish man and an ignorant person,” he said in 2015 at the University of Peradeniya in Sri Lanka. “Really true: I should sometimes be stupid in my long intellectual life.”

Although Sri Lanka has built its influence on ethnographic area, Dr. Obeyesekere’s subsequent works of philosophy, sociology and literary criticism were further work away from ordinary anthropology.

In the other of others, “Woke up: Phenomenology of visually impaired experience” (2012), examined mysticism in various cultures and time periods. Touching on Hinduism, Buddhism and William Blake’s poem, found a similar arms of a different kind of thinking in them.

“This is insufficient,” in 2015, “It’s not necessarily annoyed.”

Gananath Obeyesekere (GAH-NAT-NAT-N NAT-NAT “Ala-Kara” On February 2, 1930, MeeGama, now moved to Sri Lanka, but the capital, Colombo, Don Dharmadasa’s traditional India or Ayurveda, medicine. Her mother Amara (Kannangara) Obeyesekere died when he was very young.

He was attended by the English model and participated in private schools in English culture, then studied English literature at the University of Ceylon (later divided into four areas).

After graduating in 1955, he had the opportunity to participate in Oxford to continue learning literature. However, he was also interested in collecting stories and learning folklore in rural areas and preferred to conduct anthropology instead.

He married Ranjini Ellepola in 1958. Together with his son Asita, like another son, remains as the denials; Girls, Nalinika Obeyese; Three grandchildren; and a great grandchild.

Dr. Obezekere received the degrees of the doctoral taught both the University of Washington and the University of Washington. Later, in the University of San Diego at the University of San Diego and in 2000 in 2000, he learned in Princeton, chairman of the anthropology department since 1980.

In the early work of Dr. Obezekere, “Sabylon village of land: sociological and historical research” (1967) and the culture and policies of the country (1984) (1984) “1984)” Thames Pattini “(1984).

In 2003 University of California, Interview for BerkeleyOf course, he was to learn his views of his magnificent intellectual mission to filter the other culture, the West or the opposite culture.

“Even Buddhism was filtered from the West.” “I’m a product of it.”