Book
Vedda villages of Anuradhapura: the historical anthropology of a community in Sri Lanka
University of Washington Press • Seattle • Published In 1978 • Pages:
By: Brow, James.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is an ethnographic account of kinship and the caste system among the Vedda of Anuradhapura district in the Northern Central Province of Sri Lanka. The book argues that Vedda society and culture is shaped by a number of ecological, demographic, political and economic conditions including environmental factors (notably rainfall), government land policy, rural administration and patterns of marriage, migration and residence. It further argues that understanding Vedda history requires identifying the effects of these factors on villagers and caste groups as reflected in the developmental cycles of households, organization of work groups and inner workings of village society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Castes
- Community structure
- Regulation of marriage
- Kinship terminology
- Kin relationships
- Household
- Sociocultural trends
- Cereal agriculture
- Research and development
- 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
- Teferi Abate Adem; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1968-1970
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1900-1976
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Sri Lanka
- NotesAdditional notes
- James Brow
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-256) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 77016663
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vedda (Sri Lankan people)