ISBN:
9780511697203
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xx, 463 pages, lxix pages of plates)
Edition:
Online-Ausgabe 2012
Series Statement:
Cambridge archaeological and ethnological series
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection. Travel and exploration
DDC:
305.89148
Keywords:
Vedda (Sri Lankan people)
Abstract:
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 examined in this 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.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2010
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Originally published: Cambridge: University Press, 1911
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Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 17, 2020)
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Online-Ausgabe:
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511697203
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