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Sinhala Summary
1,179 words, approx. 4 pages
Sinhala is an old Indo-Aryan language spoken by 75 percent of the population of Sri Lanka. Its early history can be traced in Brahmi inscriptions from about 200 BCE. This "Sinhalese Prakrit" is related to north Indian dialects; Sinhalese...
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Sinhalese
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Any member of the largest ethnic group of Sri Lanka. Their ancestors are believed to have come from northern India. Most Sinhalese are agriculturalists, and most adhere to Theravada Buddhism. Like other peoples of Sri Lanka, the Sinhalese have a caste...
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Sinhala Information
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Sinhala is the Sanskrit word for the island of Sri Lanka. Sinhala or Sinhalese can refer...


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The Australian Journal of Anthropology
Sinhala Consciousness in the Kandyan Period 1590s to 1815
01/01/2008: 834 words, approx. 3 pages
Michael Roberts. Sinhala Consciousness in the Kandyan Period 1590s to 1815. Colombo 4, Sri Lanka: Vijitha Yapa Publications. 2004. Pp.xx +274, bibliog., index. US$60.00 (Hc), ISBN 955-8095-31-1. Having spent a considerable period during my undergraduate studies of anthropology concentrating on cultural aspects of...
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The Journal of the American Oriental Society
Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil.(Review) (book review) (book review)
10/01/1999: 2,672 words, approx. 9 pages
Formations of Ritual: Colonial and Anthropological Discourses on the Sinhala Yaktovil. By DAVID SCOTT. Minneapolis: UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS, 1994. Pp. xxxi + 300. $21.95. Yaktovil, a Sinhala Buddhist "healing ritual," widely practiced in the southern parts of Sri Lanka, is the...
 


 

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