South Asia

United States of America

Professor Emerita of Anthropology

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

ggamburd@umassd.edu

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
68 Russell Street
New Bedford, MA 02740 USA

phone: 508-992-9696
fax: 508-999-8901

Sri Lanka

Research on social change and participatory development; power and
equality for women; violence as a consequence of inequality; kinship,
ritual, ecological sustainability, peace studies, and conflict resolution.
South Asia and Sri Lanka areas with Sinhalese and Buddhist specialties.

The Seven Grandparents: Locality and Lineality in Sinhalese Kinship and
Caste. Ph.D.diss., Columbia University, 1972

Kinship as a system of rights: An analytical tool for discovering
elementary forms. Modern Ceylon Studies, Vol. 4, 1973

Patrons and Profits: Hierarchy and Competition in Sri Lanka. Ullrich,
Helen ed. Competition and Modernization in South Asia, New Delhi:
Abhinav, 1975

Family and Kinship chapter for an Introductory Reader. Modern Sri Lanka:
A Society in Transition. Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
Press, 1979

Sinhalese and their idea of ultimate reality and meaning. Journal of
Ultimate Reality and Meaning: Vol.3, # 3,pp.200-230, Interdisciplinary
studies in the philosophy of understanding. VanGorcum Ltd., Assen - THe
Netherlands, 1980

Social Change Toward Balance and Equity: a million year perspective. Asian
Review. Southern Connecticut State University. New Haven, CT. June 1987

Sri Lanka: The fallacy of the trickle-down theory or Health, Ecology and
Participatory Democracy in Sri Lanka, Lanka Guardian Vol. 11 no. 19 Lanka
Guardian Publishing Co. Ltd. Colombo, Sri Lanka. February 1, 1989

Understanding Terrorism: Culture and Sharing - An Essential Relationship?
PRAVADA, Vol. 3, No. 1 Colombo, Sri Lanka: Social Scientist's Association
January-February 1994

Power and Women's Space in Sri Lanka. Nivedini: A Sri Lankan Feminist
Journal. WERC (Women's Education and Research Center), 17 Park Avenue,
Colombo 5, Sri Lanka, Vol. 2, No. 1 July 1994

Violence in Sri Lanka: Its Sources and Discourses. Second World Congress
on Violence and Human Coexistence, 1992. Vol. 5 Edited by V. Cauchy.
Montreal: Mountmorency, 1995

Values, Actions and Prerequisites of Peace. International Colloquium of
The Alliance for a Responsible and Solidary World, 1996. Montreal:
Montmorency, 1997

Understankding Terrorism: Culture and Sharing - An essential Relationship;
Matters of Violence: Reflections on social and Political Violence in Sri
Lanka. Uyangoda, Jayadeva and Janika Biyanwila, Social Scientists
Association. Colombo, Sri lanka 1997

social change ; power ; inequality ; women ; violence ; South Asia ; Sinhalese ; Buddhis