Book contents
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
- Contents
- LIST OF TEXT FIGURES
- LIST OF PLATES
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER I HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL
- CHAPTER II PRESENT CONDITION OF THE VEDDAS
- CHAPTER III SOCIAL ORGANIZATION. GENEALOGIES
- CHAPTER IV FAMILY LIFE
- CHAPTER V PROPERTY AND INHERITANCE
- CHAPTER VI RELIGION
- CHAPTER VII RELIGION (continued)
- CHAPTER VIII MAGIC
- CHAPTER IX CEREMONIAL DANCES
- CHAPTER X INVOCATIONS
- CHAPTER XI ARTS AND CRAFTS
- CHAPTER XII COAST VEDDAS
- CHAPTER XIII MUSIC, BY C. S. MYERS
- CHAPTER XIV SONGS
- CHAPTER XV LANGUAGE
- CHAPTER XVI SENSES OF THE VEDDAS
- CHAPTER XVII CONCLUSIONS
- VOCABULARY
- APPENDIX
- GLOSSARY
- INDEX
- Plate section
- Plate section
CHAPTER V - PROPERTY AND INHERITANCE
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 April 2012
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
- Contents
- LIST OF TEXT FIGURES
- LIST OF PLATES
- ERRATA
- CHAPTER I HISTORICAL AND GEOGRAPHICAL
- CHAPTER II PRESENT CONDITION OF THE VEDDAS
- CHAPTER III SOCIAL ORGANIZATION. GENEALOGIES
- CHAPTER IV FAMILY LIFE
- CHAPTER V PROPERTY AND INHERITANCE
- CHAPTER VI RELIGION
- CHAPTER VII RELIGION (continued)
- CHAPTER VIII MAGIC
- CHAPTER IX CEREMONIAL DANCES
- CHAPTER X INVOCATIONS
- CHAPTER XI ARTS AND CRAFTS
- CHAPTER XII COAST VEDDAS
- CHAPTER XIII MUSIC, BY C. S. MYERS
- CHAPTER XIV SONGS
- CHAPTER XV LANGUAGE
- CHAPTER XVI SENSES OF THE VEDDAS
- CHAPTER XVII CONCLUSIONS
- VOCABULARY
- APPENDIX
- GLOSSARY
- INDEX
- Plate section
- Plate section
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- The Veddas , pp. 106 - 121Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1911