Stanley J. Tambiah
Distinguished Visiting Professor
Department of Religious Studies
University of California at Santa Barbara
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Chair: Session I & Panel
I
Saturday, June
2nd | 9:30 -
11:30 AM
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Although Dr. Tambiah retired from active teaching in 2001, he continues
his research and writing on monastic complexes and temples in Bangkok;
political violence in South Asia, especially the Bombay riots of
1991-92; and transnational movements of people and diaspora communities
in an age of “globalization." He also continues with his comparative
study of the charisma of saints and the cults of relics, amulets and
tomb shrines in some Christian, Buddhist, and Sufi Islamic traditions.
Since 2002, he has begun a field study of Sri Lankan immigrants in
Toronto, Canada. His major publications include
Edmund Leach: An Anthropological Life (2002);
Transnational Movements, Diaspora, and Multiple Modernities (2000);
Leveling Crowds: Ethnonationalist Conflicts and Collective Violence in
South Asia (1997);
Buddhism Betrayed? Religion, Politics and Violence in Sri Lanka
(1992);
Sri Lanka: Ethnic Fratricide and the Dismantling of Democracy
(1992);
Magic, Science, Religion and the Scope of Rationality (1990);
Culture, Thought and Social Action (1985);
The Buddhist Saints of the Forest and the Cult of Amulets (1985);
World Conqueror and World Renouncer (1977);
Buddhism and the Spirit Cults in Northeast Thailand (1975), and
Bridewealth and Dowry (1974).