Gananath Obeyesekere (2 Februari 1930–25 Maret 2025)[1] adalah seorang antropolog Sri Lanka yang merupakan profesor emeritus antropologi di Universitas Princeton dan telah melakukan banyak pekerjaan di negara asalnya Sri Lanka. Penelitiannya difokuskan pada psikoanalisis dan antropologi dan cara-cara di mana simbolisme personal dikaitkan dengan pengalaman keagamaan, selain Eksplorasi Eropa terhadap Polinesia pada abad ke-18 dan setelahnya, dan implikasi dari pelayaran ini bagi pengembangan etnografi.[2] Buku-bukunya termasuk Land Tenure in Village Ceylon, Medusa's Hair,[3]The Cult of the Goddess Pattini,[4]Buddhism Transformed (coauthor), The Work of Culture, The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific, and Making Karma.
Buku-buku
Land Tenure In Village Ceylon: A Sociological And Historical Study, 1967
Medusa's Hair: An Essay On Personal Symbols And Religious Experience, 1981
The Cult Of The Goddess Pattini, 1984
Buddhism Transformed: Religious Change in Sri Lanka (with Richard Gombrich), 1988
The Work Of Culture: Symbolic Transformation In Psychoanalysis And Anthropology, 1990
The Apotheosis Of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking In The Pacific, 1992
Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth, 2002
Cannibal Talk: The Man-Eating Myth and Human Sacrifice in the South Seas, 2005
Karma and Rebirth, 2005
The Awakened Ones: Phenomenology of Visionary Experience, 2012
The Doomed King: A Requiem For Sri Vikrama Rajasinha, 2017
