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Some observations on the Kandyan Sinhalese kinship system
Man, n.s. • 3 (3) • Published In 1968 • Pages: 402-423
By: Robinson, Marguerite S..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
In this brief study of the social structure of Morapitiya, a village in the wet zone of the Kandy area, Sri Lanka, Robinson deals with the problems which seem to be present in studies of the Sinhalese kinship system by comparing her findings with those of Leach (Pul Eliya), Yalman (Terutenne), and Tambiah (Rambukkoluwa).
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- 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 ; 1969
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1962, 1963, 1967
- 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)
- Morapitiya, Kandy area, Sri Lanka
- NotesAdditional notes
- Marguerite S. Robinson
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 422-423)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- sf80000548
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people)