eHRAF World Cultures

Explore search results through word clouds.

Compare cultures overlayed on a map.

Drill down through the search results by region and culture.

Sort Results By

Display Use Fors

The Vedda are a small group of indigenous people living in the center of Sri Lanka, an island off the southern tip of India. Traditional Vedda life was based on nomadic hunting and gathering at the margins of an area inhabited by the Sinhalese and the Tamils, the two largest ethnic groups in Sri Lanka. Beginning from the 1910s, however, many Vedda families adopted paddy cultivation and settled in permanent villages.

An account of the wild tribes of the Veddahs of Ceylon

Culture summary

Vedda villages of Anuradhapura

The Veddas

Africa

Asia

Europe

Middle America and the Caribbean

Middle East

New World

North America

Oceania

South America

Log In

Author	Title	Publication Date
Bailey, John	An account of the wild tribes of the Veddahs of Ceylon	1863
Brow, James	Culture summary	2009
Brow, James	Vedda villages of Anuradhapura	1978
Seligman, C. G. (Charles Gabriel)	The Veddas	1911

Vedda

Your privacy