Under the Bo TreeUniversity of California Press |
Contents
Orientation | 3 |
The Population of Ceylon | 13 |
Variations on a Theme | 16 |
Terutenne | 24 |
The Population of Terutenne | 26 |
GLOSSARY | 36 |
The Ownership of Paddy Lands in Terutenne | 39 |
The Ownership of Paddy Lands in Makulle Watta and Vilawa | 41 |
Locality of Marriage and Origin of Spouses | 128 |
Locality of Marriage and Origin of Spouses | 129 |
Mahapitiya and Elapita Gedara Households Galpitiya | 143 |
The Interconnection and Lateral Extension of Claims | 154 |
Marriages and Separations in Terutenne | 186 |
Children Living with Stepparents or Other Relatives in Terutenne | 187 |
Interconnections of Pavula A Helagama | 192 |
The Core of Pavula | 198 |
The Dispersal of Siblings | 42 |
Occupational Groupings of Gainful Workers in Ceylon | 43 |
Operations and Cost of Paddy Cultivation by Coolie Labor | 45 |
The Shops of Terutenne | 51 |
The Shops of Makulle Town in Wellassa | 52 |
The Schoolteachers of Terutenne | 55 |
Ownership of Rice Land Among Low Castes in Terutenne | 64 |
Household Composition Among TomTom Beaters of Terutenne | 65 |
Badde Services TomTom Beaters | 67 |
Henea Services Washermen | 68 |
Achari Services Blacksmiths | 70 |
Types of Dry Zone Villages | 72 |
Kinship Connections in Galpitiya | 78 |
Population and Land Ownership | 81 |
Population and Land Ownership | 83 |
Kinship Between KinegolleGalpitiya | 84 |
Some Terutenne Usages Between Speaker and Addressee of Different Castes | 90 |
Kinship and the MicroCaste | 96 |
Multiple Land Ownership | 99 |
Commensal Units Ge per Dwelling in Terutenne | 103 |
Types of Kandyan Dwellings | 105 |
Dwellings in Terutenne with Single Cooking Units | 115 |
Dwellings in Terutenne with Two Cooking Units | 116 |
Dwellings in Terutenne with Three Cooking Units | 117 |
Dwellings in Terutenne with Four or More Cooking Units | 118 |
Adult HighCaste Population of Terutenne by Origin | 127 |
Landholdings of Pavula in Helagama | 201 |
A Case of Wrong Marriage | 214 |
Bifurcate Merging | 220 |
The Logic of Structure in Ceylon | 227 |
The Population of Makulle Watta | 230 |
Cooking Units in Udamulla and Vilawa 240241 | 240 |
Locality of Marriage and Origin of Spouses Udamulla and Vilawa 242244 | 242 |
The Stability of Marriage in Udamulla and Vilawa | 245 |
The Population of Vilawa | 249 |
A Tank Village in the Maho Area | 251 |
Kinship Connections in Vilawa | 259 |
Dowry Obligations in the Low Country | 275 |
Three Sinhalese Patterns of Kinship | 280 |
Logical Categories and Empirical Discoveries | 282 |
Marriages in Kotabowe Vidiya | 286 |
An Example of Muslim Property Rights | 294 |
Membership of Households Kotabowe Vidiya | 298 |
SinhaleseMuslim Tamil Ceremonial Customs 306307 | 306 |
Marriage in Panama | 313 |
A Sinhalese Family in Panama | 320 |
Names of Workers on Marakanda Mudalalis Lands Panama | 321 |
Variant | 325 |
Kudi Cattle Brands Panama | 328 |
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Common terms and phrases
affinity Amunumulle Appuhami aristocratic Baddegama binna bride brothers Buddhist ceremony Ceylon chena claims connections cross-cousin cross-cousin marriage cultivation daughter deega descent devale dowry Dry Zone dwelling endogamous exogamous father formal Galpitiya gedara girl Goyigama groom hamlet Helagama high caste highlands household husband hypergamy important inheritance Kandyan villages Karava Kataragama kin group kindred Kinegolle kinship kinsmen kudi labor landlord live low castes Low Country Makulle Watta married massina matrilocal micro-caste mother Muhandiram Muslims names Nissanka nuclear family obligations paddy field paddy land pale Panama parents patrilineal pattern pavula persons polyandry population Radala rank relations relationship rice lands ritual status separate sexual share shopkeepers siblings Sinhalese sisters social son-in-law son's nf South India structure Tamil temple terminology Terutenne tion Tom-Tom Beaters Udamulla unilineal unilineal descent unions Vedda Vilawa Village Headman wamsa Washermen wealth Wekumbura Wellassa wife woman women