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The Sinhalese are the dominant ethnic group in Sri Lanka. They live primarily in the wetter zones of Sri Lanka in the central, south, and west provinces. Most of Sri Lanka is rural and subsistence agriculture supplemented by some wage-labor is characteristic of much of the Sinhalese population. The Sinhalese are primarily Theravada Buddhists and speak Sinhala, an Indo-European language of the Indo-Aryan group of languages.

Magical-animism and Buddhism

Pul Eliya, a village in Ceylon

Domestic architecture among the Kandyan Sinhalese

Culture summary

Some observations on the Kandyan Sinhalese kinship system

The disintegrating village

Kinship fact and fiction in relation to the Kandyan Sinhalese

The structure of kinship and its relationship to land possession and residence in Pata Dumbara, central Ceylon

Author	Title	Publication Date
Ames, Michael McLean	Magical-animism and Buddhism	1964
Leach, Edmund R.	Pul Eliya, a village in Ceylon	1961
MacDougall, Robert Duncan	Domestic architecture among the Kandyan Sinhalese	1974
Pfaffenberger, Bryan	Culture summary	1997
Robinson, Marguerite S.	Some observations on the Kandyan Sinhalese kinship system	1968
Sarkar, N. K.	The disintegrating village	1957
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja	Kinship fact and fiction in relation to the Kandyan Sinhalese	1965
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja	The structure of kinship and its relationship to land possession and residence in Pata Dumbara, central Ceylon	1958
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja	Sri Lanka	1991
Tambiah, Stanley Jeyaraja	Buddhism betrayed?	1992
Yalman, Nur	Under the bo tree	1971

Sinhalese

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