Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, Sri Lankan anthropologist and academic (died 2014)

Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah

American anthropologist (1929–2014)

Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah was a social anthropologist and Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor (Emeritus) of Anthropology at Harvard University. He specialised in studies of Thailand, Sri Lanka, and Tamils, as well as the anthropology of religion and politics.