Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
Anthropologist, Academic
1929 – 2014
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Who was Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah?
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah was a social anthropologist and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University. He specialized in studies of Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Tamils, as well as the anthropology of religion and politics.
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- Born
- Jan 16, 1929
Sri Lanka - Also known as
- Stanley Tambiah
- Stanley J. Tambiah
- Religion
- Christianity
- Ethnicity
- Sri Lankan Tamils
- Tamil
- Sri Lankan American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Sri Lanka
- Profession
- Education
- PhD, Cornell University
Social science
( - 1954) - University of Ceylon
- Harvard University
- PhD, Cornell University
- Employment
- Harvard University
- Lived in
- Sri Lanka
- Massachusetts
(1976 - )
- Died
- Jan 19, 2014
Cambridge
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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