A person of big ideas and an even bigger humanistic imagination," Obeyesekere joined Princeton’s faculty in 1980 and ...

Yes. As a cultural anthropologist, I am interested in the ways in which the housing crisis is experienced at the individual level. A homeless person is experiencing a housing crisis as is the ...

It wasn’t the size of human brains that distinguished people from apes, he theorized, but the way they were organized. He found a creative way to prove it.

As economic uncertainty grows, Hormel sees the pantry as a source of emotional comfort and security for all income levels, making its products essential for both practical needs and cultural ...

By Clay Risen Gananath Obeyesekere, an anthropologist whose long career ... pluralism and the possibility of finding commonalities across cultural divides. Long prominent among academics, he ...

Psychological time is not clock time. How people in different parts of the world divide up the minutes in an hour may explain ...

On March 25, the renowned Sri Lankan social anthropologist Prof. Gananath Obeyesekere of Princeton University, passed away leaving academia across the world immeasurably poorer. Till his last breath, ...

President Xi's visit to Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia is not only a diplomatic milestone; it is a powerful reminder of the ...