Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja, 1929-
Contributed to
ax04Sri Lanka
Sri LankaBook 1991
ax04Buddhism betrayed?
Buddhism betrayed?Book 1992
ax04The disintegrating village
The disintegrating villageBook 1957
ax04Kinship fact and fiction in relation to the Kandyan Sinhalese
Kinship fact and fiction in relation to the Kandyan Sinhalesearticle 1965
ax04The structure of kinship and its relationship to land possession and residence in Pata Dumbara, central Ceylon
The structure of kinship and its relationship to land possession and residence in Pata Dumbara, central Ceylonarticle 1958
- Summary
- Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah was a social anthropologist and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor (Emeritus) of Anthropology at Harvard University. He specialised in studies of Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Tamils, as well as the anthropology of religion and politics. Wikipedia
- Gender or Sex
- Male [1][2][3][4][5][6]
- Born
- 1929-01-16 [2][6]
- Birth Place
- Jaffna (auj. Sri Lanka) [3]
- Sri Lanka [6]
- Died
- 2014-01-19 [2][6]
- Death Place
- Cambridge, Mass. [3]
- Cambridge [6]
- Country
- United States [2]
- Language
- English [3]
- Occupation
- anthropologist [6]
- Profession
- Sozialanthropologe [2]
- Employer
- Harvard University [6]
- Educated at
- S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia [6]
- Cornell University [6]
- Harvard University [6]
- Country of Education
- United States [6]
- Sri Lanka [6]
- Encyclopædia Britannica
- Biography [6]
- Sources
- 1. VIAF
- 2. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany)
- 3. Bibliothèque nationale de France
- 4. Library of Congress
- 5. National Library of Korea
- 6. Wikidata
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