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An account of the wild tribes of the Veddahs of Ceylon: their habits, customs, and superstitions
Transactions, n.s • 2 • Published In 1863 • Pages: 278-320
By: Bailey, John.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Bailey, who was Principal Assistant Colonial Secretary of Ceylon for a period, gives a description of the Vedda based principally upon his own observations. Covering first physical anthropology, he proceeds to describe the economic life, social life, and religious beliefs of the people. He then attempts to reconstruct the origin of the Veddas. Finally, the author includes a vocabulary and list of names.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Descriptive somatology
- Historical reconstruction
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Settlement patterns
- Cultural participation
- Dwellings
- Real property
- Anthropometry
- Ethos
- Ethnobotany
- External relations
- Hunting and trapping
- Ethnozoology
- 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
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Government Official
- 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
- James R. Leary; 1961
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- ca. 1854
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1854-1863
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sri Lanka
- NotesAdditional notes
- John Bailey
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 06004086
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vedda (Sri Lankan people)