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Arjun Guneratne
Dr. Guneratne was educated at the University of Colombo, where he studied for one year in the Faculty of Law, and at Dartmouth College (A.B., 1985). He received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Chicago in 1994. He taught at Cornell University before coming to Macalester in 1995. He is currently chair of the department and serves also as a Director of the American Institute for Sri Lankan Studies, as South Asia representative to the Advisory Board of the Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs and as a member of the South Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies. He teaches a broad range of courses, including the methods course Ethnographic Interviewing, A History of Anthropological Ideas, Peoples and Cultures of South Asia, Environmental Anthropology, and the Anthropology of Law.
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Arjun Guneratne is a socio-cultural anthropologist whose research focuses on two areas of inquiry: firstly, the emergence of an ethnic identity among the Tharu of Nepal and its relationship to processes of state formation, and secondly, the relationship between environmentalism and globalization in Sri Lanka. His research in Nepal since 1989 has led to a number of published articles and a book,
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