Family formation and marriage patterns: a comparison between Sri Lanka and Europe.
Publication date
2010Metadata
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This
thesis
attempts
to
reconstruct
the
family
structure
of
late
eighteenth‐century
Sri
Lankan
peasant
society
and
to
compare
this
society
to
the
very
different
European
society
of
that
time.
The
family
as
a
social
unit
will
receive
focus; differences
between
the
European
marriage
pattern
and
the
Sri
Lankan
marriage
pattern,
differences
between
the
family
as
a
unit
in
both
regions,
and differences
in
size
and
composition
of
families will receive attention. The thombos of eighteenth-century Sri Lanka form the primary source of this research. These are documents that registered people from different villages, the information gathered, such as names, ages, castes, services, marital status, children, family ties etc., enabled an analysis of Sri Lankan peasant society to be made.