Dr. David Gellner
David N Gellner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls. He is the author of "Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest "(1992) and "The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes "(2001), and the co-author (with Sarah LeVine) of "Rebuilding Buddhism: The ""Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal "(2005). Among his other edited volumes are "Contested Hierarchies: A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste among the Newars of the Kathmandu...See more
David N Gellner is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of All Souls. He is the author of "Monk, Householder, and Tantric Priest "(1992) and "The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism: Weberian Themes "(2001), and the co-author (with Sarah LeVine) of "Rebuilding Buddhism: The ""Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal "(2005). Among his other edited volumes are "Contested Hierarchies: A Collaborative Ethnography of Caste among the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal "(with D. Quigley, 1995), "Nationalism and Ethnicity in a Hindu Kingdom "(with J. Pfaff-Czarnecka and J. Whelpton, Harwood, 1997; 2nd edition, 2008), "Resistance and the State: Nepalese Experiences "(2003; Berghahn, 2007), "Nepalis Inside and Outside Nepal "and "Political and Social Transformations in North India and Nepal "(both with H. Ishii and K. Nawa, 2007), "Local Democracy in South Asia "(with K. Hachhethu, 2008), and "Ethnic Activism and Civil Society in South Asia "(2009). See less
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