{"id":118684,"date":"2014-01-21T00:05:06","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T18:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=118684"},"modified":"2014-01-28T16:42:05","modified_gmt":"2014-01-28T11:12:05","slug":"video-interview-with-stanley-tambiah-1983","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/video-interview-with-stanley-tambiah-1983\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Interview With Stanley Tambiah – 1983"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah<\/span><\/a>\u00a0passed away on the \u00a0January 20, 2014 at the age 84. Stanely J. Tambiah was the Esther and Sidney Rabb Research Professor of Anthropology at Harvard University<\/span><\/a>. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University (1954). Having served as a UNESCO technical assistance expert in Thailand from 1960 to 1963, he joined the faculty at the University of Cambridge, where he taught for ten years, and was a Fellow of King’s College. He went to the University of Chicago in 1973 as a tenured professor, and joined Harvard University in 1976.\u00a0We publish below an interview of Stanley Tambiah by Alan Macfarlane. Filmed by Michael Madha at the A.S.A. Decenial Conference in Cambridge, 1983.<\/p>\n