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In a tongue-in-cheek comment on the last page of The work of culture Gananath Obeyesekere (1990: 289) identifies himself with this character. The argument in the following essay takes the ‘work’ of culture as its foil, and I want to continue Obeyesekerne’s lighthearted use of the character.
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Forsyth, D.W. Ajātasattu and the future of psychoanalytic anthropology. Part II: The imperative of the wish. Hindu Studies 1, 314–336 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11407-997-0004-y
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