Vedda : AX05.

Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Haven, Conn. : Human Relations Area Files, 2009-
Supplemental Contenthttps://go.openathens.net/redirector/ecu.edu?url=http://ehrafworldcultures.yale.edu/collection?owc=AX05
Subjects

Included WorkBailey, John, B.A. Account of the wild tribes of the Veddahs of Ceylon.
Included WorkBrow, James. Culture summary, Vedda.
Included WorkWoost, Michael D., 1955-
Included WorkSeligman, C. G. (Charles Gabriel), 1873-1940. Veddas.
Included WorkSeligman, Brenda Z., 1883-1965
Included WorkMyers, Charles S. (Charles Samuel), 1873-1946.
Included WorkGunasekara, Abraham Mendis, 1860-1931.
Other author/creatorHuman Relations Area Files, inc.
SerieseHRAF world cultures
eHRAF world cultures. Asia. UNAUTHORIZED
Contents Account of the wild tribes of the Veddahs of Ceylon / John Bailey -- Culture summary, Vedda / James Brow and Michael Woost -- Vedda villages of Anuradhapura / James Brow -- Veddas / C. G. Seligman and Brenda Z. Seligman with a chapter by C.S. Myers and an appendix by A. Mendis Gunasekara.
Abstract This collection consists of three documents, all in English, containing information about the Vedda during three periods of time: 1850s, mid-1910s, and late 1960s. The first comprehensive ethnographic account of Vedda in this collection was compiled by C. G. Seligmann and B. Z. Seligmann. It provides a first hand account of Vedda kinship, village life, economic activities, settlement patterns, life cycles, religion, music, language and perceptions as observed in 1907-1908. Seligmanns's account is supplemented by James Brow's study of kinship and caste system among the Vedda of Anuradhapura district in the Northern Central Province of Sri Lanka. The remaining book in the collection was authored by John Bailey, a British colonial government official, and he covers a variety of information relating to settlement pattern, economic activities and religion. The Vedda are a small group of indigenous people living in the center of Sri Lanka, an island off the southern tip of India.
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General noteThis portion of eHRAF world cultures was last updated in 2009 and is a revision and update of the microfiche file.

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