International Center for Ethnic Studies
cordially invites you to a lecture

by

Dr. David N. Gellner
(Lecturer in Anthropology of South Asia at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Oxford University)

on
“Causes of the Maoist Insurgency in Nepal”

on
Wednesday, August 16, 2006 at 5:30 p.m.

at the
ICES Auditorium,
02, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 08

David N. Gellner is Oxford University Lecturer in Anthropology of South Asia at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology. His doctoral research (1982-4) was on the traditional, Vajrayana Buddhism of the Newars of the Kathmandu Valley, Nepal. He has carried out fieldwork in the Kathmandu valley on many subsequent occasions, broadening his interests to include politics and ethnicity, healers, mediums, and popular approaches to misfortune, and religious change, in particular the history and effects of the newly introduced Theravada Buddhist movement. Author of several publications. Three of his recent publications are: Rebuilding Buddhism: The Theravada Movement in Twentieth-Century Nepal; Resistance and the State: Nepalese Experiences; The Anthropology of Buddhism and Hinduism. Dr. Gellner has contributed numerous articles to several prestigious journals.

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