Book
Under the bo tree: studies in caste, kinship, and marriage in the interior of Ceylon
University of California Press ; University of California Press, Ltd. • Berkeley, Calif. • Published In 1971 • Pages:
By: Yalman, Nur.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an analysis of Sinhalese kinship systems, which generally add to the findings of Tambiah and Leach on the same subject. Yalman divides the book into three sections, with the first introducing Sri Lanka in general, the second treating marriage and kinship in different communities, and the third comparing Sinhalese kinship structure with that of South India. The book is a theoretical contribution to social anthropology, especially in the author's dealings with the principles of social sturcture and the rules of transformation that produce other structures.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Marriage
- Kinship
- Kin groups
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Sinhalese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1997
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- South Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Social Anthropologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Dubravka Schmalzbauer ; John Beierle ; 1969-1972
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1954-1956
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sri Lanka
- NotesAdditional notes
- Nur Yalman
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-400) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 67011939
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people)