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The Veddas, C. G. Seligmann and Brenda Z. Seligmann's 1911 ethnography from Cambridge University Press, is the earliest systematic survey of Vedda communities in Sri Lanka, drawn from fieldwork in 1907 and 1908, describing Ne Yaku, named ancestral spirits, and Kande Yaka, a mountain deity. Its strength is that it is the foundational survey of the subject, and the Seligmanns themselves already treated Vedda tradition as varied and in contact with Sinhalese Buddhist practice at the time of their fieldwork. Its limit is that later scholarship has revised the survey's assumptions about which communities it selected as most representative, and it is not a source for any stated cosmogony or creator figure, which the survey does not describe.
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Reliability tier 1: an ethnography from Cambridge University Press, written by two named academic authors drawing on their own fieldwork, the foundational scholarly survey of its subject. NotesThe earliest systematic survey of Vedda communities in Sri Lanka (fieldwork 1907 to 1908), describing Ne Yaku (named ancestral spirits) and Kande Yaka (a mountain deity). The Seligmanns themselves treated Vedda tradition as already varied and already in contact with Sinhalese Buddhist practice at the time of their survey; later scholarship has revised the survey's assumptions about which communities it selected as most representative. Not a source for a stated cosmogony or creator figure, which the survey does not describe.
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AuthorC. G. Seligmann and Brenda Z. Seligmann
PublisherCambridge University Press
Publication Year1911
URLhttps://archive.org/details/veddas01seli_0
Source TypeEthnography
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This source names Sinhalese directly: "as varied and in contact with Sinhalese Buddhist practice at the time of their fieldwork."
Source The VeddasC. G. Seligmann and Brenda Z. Seligmann This source names Sri Lanka directly: "survey of Vedda communities in Sri Lanka, drawn from fieldwork in 1907 and 1908, describing Ne Yaku, named ancestral spirits, and Kande Yaka, a mountain deity."
Source The VeddasC. G. Seligmann and Brenda Z. Seligmann Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 9 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
- Pantheons, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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