Gananath ObeyesekereGananath Obeyesekere is Professor of Anthropology, Emeritus, at Princeton University. He is the author of Imagining Karma: Ethical Transformation in Amerindian, Buddhist, and Greek Rebirth (California, 2002), The Apotheosis ofCaptain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific (1997), The Work of Culture: Symbolic Transformation in Psychoanalysis and Anthropology (1990), The Cult of the Goddess Pattini (1984), and Medusa's Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience (1984). Read More Read Less