Geraldine Gamburd (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth)

Geraldine Gamburd
Professor Emerita of Anthropology
University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

mailing address:
68 Russell Street
New Bedford, MA  02740  USA

phone: 508-992-9696
fax:   508-999-8901
email:  ggamburd@umassd.edu

Description of work:

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.

Publications:

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