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The Veddas

The Veddas

Charles Gabriel Seligmann
Brenda Zara Seligmann
November 2010
Paperback
9781108010788
£43.99
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    Dr C. G. Seligmann (1873–1940) was a renowned anthropologist who was President of the Royal Anthropological Institute between 1923 and 1925. After joining the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Strait in Melanesia in 1898, he changed his career from medicine to anthropology and began his career as a distinguished field anthropologist. This book contains his pioneering ethnology of the indigenous Vedda people of Sri Lanka. The social, political, religious and economic life of the Veddas is systematically examined in this detailed study, first published as part of the Cambridge Archaeological and Ethnological Series in 1911. This ethnology remains the standard reference work for the social structure and material culture of the Vedda people, as they have ceased to exist as a separate community in Sri Lanka. This volume contains views on ethnicity which were acceptable at the time it was published.

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    November 2010
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    9781108010788
    634 pages
    216 × 140 × 36 mm
    0.8kg
    87 b/w illus. 1 map
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    Contents

    Table of Contents

    • Preface
    • Note on transliteration
    • 1. Historical and geographical
    • 2. Present condition of the Veddas
    • 3. Social organization
    • 4. Family life
    • 5. Property and inheritance
    • 6. Religion
    • 7. Religion continued
    • 8. Magic
    • 9. Ceremonial dances
    • 10. Invocations
    • 11. Arts and crafts
    • 12. Coast Veddas
    • 13. Music C. S. Myers
    • 14. Songs
    • 15. Language
    • 16. Senses of the Veddas
    • 17. Conclusions
    • Vocabulary
    • Appendix A. M. Gunasekara
    • Glossary
    • Index.
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    • Brenda Zara Seligmann

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