Book
The Veddas
University Press • Cambridge • Published In 1911 • Pages: 19, 463
By: Seligman, C. G. (Charles Gabriel), Seligman, Brenda Z., Myers, Charles Samuel, Gunasekara, Abraham Mendis, d. 1931.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
The authors of this first comprehensive study of the Veddas devoted most of their attention to the jungle-dwelling Veddas whose way of life is more primitive that the Village Veddas and the Coastal Veddas. All of them, however, have come under the influence of foreign cultures. One of the major aims of this book is to trace the course of this acculturation process and to reconstruct the historical development of Vedda society. In describing the contemporary Veddas, the authors supplement their personal observations with reports written by previous observers. The topics discussed include the kinship structure, village organization, economic activities, life cycle, religion, music, language, and sensory perception. A rather extensive list of Vedda words is included in the text.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- History
- Acculturation and culture contact
- External relations
- Descriptive somatology
- Anthropometry
- Prehistory
- Historical reconstruction
- Dwellings
- Clans
- Regulation of marriage
- Settlement patterns
- Behavior toward non-relatives
- Sociocultural trends
- Kinship terminology
- Community structure
- Real property
- Dance
- Organized ceremonial
- Prayers and sacrifices
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Vedda
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2009
- 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.
- 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.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Robert Lee; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1907-1908
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1907-1911
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sri Lanka
- NotesAdditional notes
- By C. G. Seligmann… and Brenda Z. Seligman. With a chapter by C.S. Myers … and an appendix by A. Mendis Gunasekara …
- 'Music, by C.S. Myers': p. [341]-365
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- a 11002174
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vedda (Sri Lankan people)