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Egan was a Sri Lankan cultural specialist who taught anthropology at UBC in the 1970s. From Sep-Dec 1965 he was at the University of Ceylon, Peradeniya. His doctoral thesis was titled "A structural analysis of a Sinhalese healing ritual" (University of Cambridge, 1969). His research in Sri Lanka was conducted from September 1965 to November 1966, and his doctoral fieldwork was carried out in the south of Sri Lanka, in the village of Kadurupokuna, near the town of Tangalla (Hambantota District). The thesis documents the Maha Sohona (or Maha Sona) Sumayama (literally, the time when the demon Maha Sohona appears), a Sinhalese healing ritual, performed on August 18, 1966, in the Berava drummer hamlet, in the village of Kadurupokuna.

Born: 1940
Died: 1977