A Sinhalese village in Sri Lanka : coping with uncertainty /

A Sinhalese village in Sri Lanka : coping with uncertainty /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Baker, Victoria J.
Imprint:	Fort Worth, TX : Harcourt Brace College Publishers, c1998.
Description:	xiv, 185 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Case studies in cultural anthropology
Subject:	Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) -- Social life and customs. Manners and customs. Sinhalese (Sri Lankan people) -- Social life and customs. Moneragala District (Sri Lanka) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century. Sri Lanka -- Moneragala District.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3158772

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ISBN:	0155051768
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 179) and index.

Table of Contents:

1. Fieldwork on the Sinhalese Frontier
2. The Village Setting and Background
3. Belief in the Supernatural
4. Living Standards and Daily Subsistence
5. Healing and Health
6. Kinship and the Family
7. Childhood and Socialization
8. Formal Education
9. Girls and Women
10. Polity, Factionalism, and Social Control
11. The Nation, the Village, and the Future.