Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah [SEP] educated at
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah (16 January 1929 – 19 January 2014) 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.
Biography.
Tambiah was born in Sri Lanka to a Christian Tamil family. He attended S. Thomas' College, Mount Lavinia for his primary and secondary education. After finishing his undergraduate education at the University
director of the Center for Brain and Cognition at the University of California, San Diego
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- Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah - social anthropologist
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