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Gananath Obeyesekere, a Sri Lankan Anthropologist, Challenged the Research Findings

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Gananath Obeyesekere, a Sri Lankan anthropologist, challenged the research findings of Marshall Sahlins, who argued that Captain Cook was killed by native Hawaiians who thought he was the god Lono. Obeyesekere's critique raises the issue of


A) how anthropologists should go about challenging each other's work.
B) whether anthropology has a Western or Eurocentric bias.
C) whether Christians are capable of understanding the importance of different gods and goddesses.
D) the property rights to the diaries of Captain Cook.

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