# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gananath-obeyesekere
# Generated: 2026-08-15T13:46:38.236Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/gananath-obeyesekere"
name: "Gananath Obeyesekere"
slug: "gananath-obeyesekere"
description: "Gananath Obeyesekere was a Sri Lankan anthropologist of religion and professor of anthropology at Princeton University."
tagline: "Sri Lankan anthropologist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/Gananath_Obeyesekere.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "academics"
profileType:
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  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1930-02-02"
deathDate: "2025-03-25"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.100917431192661
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  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Gananath Obeyesekere"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump