Biography
Robert Sidharthan Perinbanayagam received his B.A.
in Sociology from the University of Ceylon and an M.A. and Ph.D. in
Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Minnesota. His latest
book (published in 2006) is Games and Sport in Everyday Life: Dialogues
and Narratives of the Self .In addition, he has published The Karmic
Theater: Self, Society and Astrology in Jaffna, Sri Lanka; Signifying
Acts, and Discursive Acts, The Presence of Self and a number of articles
in professional journals. His main research interests are in social
linguistics and in contemporary sociological theory. He teaches courses
in interpersonal behavior, sociological theory (undergraduate and graduate),
and the sociology of knowledge. He has won the following awards: G.
H. Mead Award and the C. H. Cooley Award from the Society for the Study
of Symbolic Interaction, and the Theory Award from the American Sociological
Association (Theory Section) for The Presence of Self.
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